“In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes - and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.” PeopleHumansFeelingsAgeEmotionConsciousnessDoubtEmotionalWeightGuiltyInstancePlanesGenocideIncapableFaminePassengersReactingImpotenceInadequacyBlowing Up Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future
“It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.” BelieveOpinionDoubtInstanceTrue Ones Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have placed it beyond a doubt that their rulers had formed settled plans to deprive them of their liberties; not to oppress an individual or a few, but to break down the fences of a free constitution, and deprive the people at large of all share in the government, and all the checks by which it is limited.” PeopleLittlesGovernmentIndividualLibertyBreakDoubtPlansShareRevolutionConstitutionChecksResistanceOppressionInstanceJealousSensibleRulersFenceBreaking DownJealous People Author:John Adams
“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.” FirstsCountryGovernmentFormFallDoubtExpressionIndustryInstanceNo DoubtSocialistDiscontentFall BackConductingGestapoSocialist Government Book:Churchill: The Power of Words Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe.” ThinkingKnowsDoubtBehaviorInstanceTribesRepresenting Author:Kurt Vonnegut