If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it - the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.
William Kingdon CliffordThere is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
William Kingdon CliffordThought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
William Kingdon CliffordEvery rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.
William Kingdon Clifford