#thought

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#i #i think #invasion #iraq #launched

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#does #know #man #merely #new

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. ↗

— Robert Conklin

#creates #feeling #into #more #resistance

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for Jacques Chirac. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#chirac #his #i #jacques #jacques chirac

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#committing #create #created #even #i

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#nor #opinion #run #thought #world

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#breathe #burn #thoughts #words

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#character #comic #comic strip #developed #early

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not. ↗