When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.
Showing posts with label Controversy Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Controversy Quotes. Show all posts
When a subject is highly contr...
When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
No great advance has ever been...
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
If a cause be good, the most v...
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.
Every real thought on every re...
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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