A Quote by John Money

Neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power.

John Money

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Acts Custom Expediency Faith Grounded Intolerance Neither Nor Politics Power Reason Science Social Themselves Tolerance

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John Money
New Zealander - Psychologist
July 8, 1921 - July 7, 2006

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right - subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.

L. Neil Smith

Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

William Blake

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is so grounded. Even my wife pointed it out when we were in the city, she said that even the architecture is grounded in Chicago, it's so solid. Because it has to deal with winters. There is something about Chicago that keeps people centered and grounded.

Jake M. Johnson

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.

Gerry Adams

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

Carolyn Custis James

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Michael Gruber

The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory.

Edgar S. Brightman

I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.

Jeff Nichols

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

Rebecca Ferguson

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Mary Parker Follett

I try to stay grounded by keeping the people around me as a small group; people who I love and trust. I try to explore and be outside, and I'm a very grateful person so that keeps me grounded. And as much as I do enjoy social media, I try to back off it a bit when I'm out and about.

Vanessa Hudgens

I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore.

Tarana Burke

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.