[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
New ideas can be supremely bad ideas, and by the time people realize how bad they are, it is sometimes difficult to get rid of them.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.
Why study what the world thinks? I believe this practice will actually make us more gracious and merciful. Engaged in interactions with worldlings, we are likely to see each person and each situation...
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have...
The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.
When I say most people I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail.
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