A Quote by Robert Todd Carroll

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a religion.

Robert Todd Carroll

Quote Topics

Cult Delusion Few Held Illness Many Mental Mental Illness Person Religion

Quote Author

Robert Todd Carroll
American - Writer
1945 - 2000

The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

Bertrand Russell

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him

Nalini Singh

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

Dennis Kucinich

Our meetings are held to discuss many problems which would never arise if we held fewer meetings.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.

Gary Hamel

Many climbers use the term 'objective hazard; to denote something they aren't to be held accountable for. I held myself accountable for the mistakes I made over the years.

Jeff Lowe

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

Mira Bartok

I just think, obviously as players, we're held to a higher standard. I've had to watch myself on that, but I think if we're held to higher standards, the owners should be held to even higher standards.

Matt Barnes

There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

Patricia A. Woertz

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

Amy Klobuchar

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.

Heinrich Himmler

To suggest that a person's strongly held religious view is less tolerant than a strongly held antireligious view is morally, intellectually, and politically inconsistent and incorrect.

Cal Thomas

But you held your pride like you should've held me

Taylor Swift

Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.