#grounds

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#aristocracy #grounds #men #natural #talents

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#animal #bad #belief #believe #credulous

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel. ↗

— Mark Russell

#grounds #libel #opponent #politician #you

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#democracies #grounds #poor #terrorism #war

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#divorce #easy #eleven #england #got

Against inebriation – and for drunkenness! Burn down the liquor stores, and replace them with playgrounds! ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inebriation #liquor #play #playgrounds #anarchy

sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. ↗

— William Faulkner

#faith

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together. ↗

— George Lopez

#about #anymore #backgrounds #because #black

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers