#accepted

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#actions #cannot #defence #hitler #immediate

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. ↗

— Jacky Ickx

#colleagues #could #died #each #generally

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

#adherence #based #doctrinaire #everyone #evolution

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#able #accepted #been #britain #century

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#badly #emergence #emergency #enough #ideas

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animosity #announcing #certain #compelling #dissent

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago. ↗

— Al Lewis

#ago #goes #i #long #long time

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#always #change #instead #itself #late