It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
[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.
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
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.
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
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.
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.
Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
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...
And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is to make the unemployed suffer. And while the benefits from inflicting pain are an illusion, the pai...
When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
The usefulness of a man or woman of God relies on the ability to remain distinct.