A.C. Grayling Quotes - Page 2

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• It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

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  Believe, Reflection, People

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• The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

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  Media, Order, Anxiety

  A. C. Grayling (2004). “Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.

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  Christian, Religious, Voice

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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  Littles, Eccentric, Way

  "The Heart of Things".

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• I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.

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  Believe, Decision, Wish

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

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  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you?
  Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.

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  Children, Party, Hands

  A. C. Grayling (2011). “The Good Book: A Secular Bible”, p.42, A&C Black

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• Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

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  Rights, Liberty, Different

  A.C. Grayling (2007). “Toward the Light of Liberty: The Struggles for Freedom and Rights That Made the Modern Western World”, Walker

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• When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?

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  Believe, Reading, School

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

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  Fall, Writing, Science

  "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

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  Atheist, Cities, Faces

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• Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.

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  Philosophy, Mistake, Perspective

  A. C. Grayling (1988). “Wittgenstein”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world.

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  Wise, World, Habit

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