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“The freethinker has the same right to discredit the beliefs of Christians that the Orthodox Christians enjoy in destroying reverence, respect, and confidence in Mohammedanism, Mormonism, Christian Science, or Atheism.”

Christian Belief Enjoy Atheism Orthodox Destroying Reverence Orthodox Christian Freethinker Discredit Mormonism Christian Science

Author:Theodore Schroeder

“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.”

Ifs Ends Use Hands Ability Unhappy Occasions Imperfect Indication Discredit

Author:Polykarp Kusch

“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”

World Littles States Today Faces Political Lying Forget Media Terrorist Bombs Deceit Deaf Forget It Transmit Discredit Government Programs Hijacking

Author:John Berger

“The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Made Differences Taste Skills Prove Cooking Prepared Cooks Arrangements Good And Bad Sauce Discredit Cookery

Author:Eliza Acton

“How have you arrived at your thinking? Where do your ideas and knowledge come from, and why do you credit some knowledge and discredit others?”

Thinking Ideas Credit Discredit

Book:Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.”

Jobs Used Decision Skills Lows Shame Greed Superiors Decision Making Loser Application Capability Capitalist Discredit Achiever

Author:Neal Boortz

“Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.”

Way Real Violence Stupid Movement Coward Discredit

Author:Glenn Beck

“Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one-that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.”

Needs Should Soul Hard Seems Might Religious Views Christianity Journey Atheist Core Vulnerable Realms Relevant Secular Nurture Provocative Childlike Thesis Discredit Journey Through Life

Author:Alain de Botton

“Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.”

Way Doe Ends Success Method Mere Determine Reaching Discredit

Book:The Mind in the Making

Source: The Mind in the Making

“And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.”

Littles Time Faults Excuse Hiding Patches Breach Discredit

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.”

Use Action Form Political Lines Practice Mere Analysis Speculation Domain Intervention Discredit Political Action

Author:Michel Foucault

“Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.”

“The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.”

“It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.”

Oneself Discredit

Author:Socrates

“I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.”

Victim Presses Conferences Prosecutor Discredit Press Conferences

Author:Al Sharpton

“However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.”

Believe Use Used Purpose Courses I Believe Nations Half Fit Islam Come Up Sentences Discredit Nation Of Islam

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.”

Whole Purpose Groups Media Hatred Organization Dollars League Telling The Truth Bigots Discredit Gentiles Ku Klux Klan Branded Defamation

Author:David Duke

“Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.”

People World Needs Politics Poor Republican Concepts Democrat Obvious Spots Fake Activist Spells Foreigners Discredit Fundraising Wacky Sleepers

Author:Mark Steyn

“The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.”

Christian Christianity Christian Life Disgrace Discredit

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.”

Sometimes Cases Punishment Funeral Physicians Discredit

Book:The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

Source: The Works of Ben. Jonson: Underwoods. Timber; or, Discoveries made upon men and matter. Horace, Of the art of poetry [with an English translation by Jonson]. The English grammar. Leges convivales, rules for the Tavern Academy. The case is altered

“For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.”

People Knows Knowledge Strive Chaos Discredit

Author:Zhuangzi

“For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.”

Ifs Trying Opportunity Havens Wave Backgrounds Being The Best Hiding Flags Asian Discredit Asian American American Flag

Author:Chad Hugo

“What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.”

Want Giving Writing Matter Care Too Much Crazy No Matter What Interviews Reporters Discredit Caring Too Much Discredit You

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.