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.
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.
[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.
The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.
Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.
He kept himself in line with popular opinion, which meant popular prejudice.
Preconceived, fixed notions can be more damaging than cannon.
He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
We need to be making disciples telling people about Jesus & move them beyond conversation into a heart relationship with Him in the fullness
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.
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...
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.
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 I say most people I mean, of course, me after my first cocktail.
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...
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