“Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened.” WantEndsDoneTodayPoliticalGoalResponsibilityGreaterHappenedAssumingAvoidingHarborsChileDisintegrationFatherlandRancorPolitical Responsibility Author:Augusto Pinochet
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” IfsInspirationalHumansHappensHuman BeingsHappenedSafeAssumingClimateEverydayClimate ChangeVulnerableExceptionConfusingUnprecedentedImprobable Author:Al Gore
“The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.” IfsWayLooksHappenedCreationTheoryEvolutionEvidenceAssumingEnormousQuantityCompellingEnormous Quantities Author:Richard Dawkins
“Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.” MovingHappenedOriginalsAssumingCatastrophe Author:Jean Baudrillard
“The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims and Jews and cried, "God will's it." That was their battle cry. Obviously God willed no such thing. The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.” PeopleMadeHappenedShareCryBattleHatredPrejudiceAssumingJewLikesGods WillAwfulMade ItDislikeCriedDeitiesAtrocitiesLoathingLikes And DislikesBattle Cry Author:Karen Armstrong