#establish

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places. ↗

— E. Digby Baltzell

#men

The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the government will really help it to persecute its heretics…I am not frightened of the word ‘persecution’…It is a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof—then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#eugenics #materialism #science #religion

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. ↗

— Michael J. Findley

#ancient-governments #culture #establishment-of-religion #history #non-fiction

We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#audible #background #codes #communications #environment

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#does #establish #india #need #power

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#care #dodging #establishing #god #made

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#bring #center #did #done #established

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#establish #expectation #i #i can #justice

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#between #characters #establishes #everyone #first

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#establish #fruitful #give #great #inquiry