Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove – disapprove of their point of view.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The law is reason, free from passion.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

Beautiful speech doesn’t need protection, it’s ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don’t have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

You can only have one aim per debate.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.