#assert

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#crucial #matter #only #subject #subject matter

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#begets #confidence #does #frequently #ignorance

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#blatantly #bringing #contains #enemy #face

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#assertions #being #contradicted #extremes #fear

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#assertions #authentic #consequence #credible #defined

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

We are men, and propose to live like men in this free land, without the contamination of slave labor, or die like men, if need be, in asserting the rights of our race, our country, and our families. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#contamination #country #die #families #free

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#belief #constant #fear #indication

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#assertions #based #capital #capital punishment #form