If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.