“So basically what you're saying is you believe this to be true despite the fact that you have no evidence to support that”

— Matt Dillahunty

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Episode 452: People who hate people (June 11, 2011)
The Atheist Experience

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American activist 1969

Kent Haruf (1943–2014) Novelist

“You are beautiful,” he whispered to me. “If you say so.” “Do ye not believe me? Have I ever lied to you?” “That’s not what I mean. I mean—if you say it, then it’s true. You make it true.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Source: The Fiery Cross

“Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

“I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Interview by Andrew Marr on BBC2, February 14, 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19990930034218/http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/9602-big-idea.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999

“The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.”

Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) American philosopher

In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (2012)

“You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.”

John Howard Lawson (1894–1977) American politician

Speaking to the rest of the Hollywood Ten during their preparation for testimony, in answer to a hypothetical prosecution ploy, "Do you believe in free speech for fascists?" From Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten by Edward Dmytryk (1996, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL).

“The difficulty that we have, and I don't mean to be rude here, is that we have a president who is a pathological liar. So, could it be true? I guess it could be. Is it likely to be true? Probably not. And I think what happens in our own country and around the world, people don't believe much of what Trump says, and when you lie all the time, the problem is sometimes when you're telling the truth that people are not gonna believe you.”

Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont

Today, NBC, quoted in * 2020-01-10

Sen. Bernie Sanders slams Trump as 'pathological liar'

Adam Edelman

NBC News

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sen-bernie-sanders-slams-trump-pathological-liar-n1113416
2010s, 2020

“That's right! You're watching the DVD! So, the coolness of what the bowing man is doing is self-evident to you!”

Phil Vischer (1966) American puppeter

From Disc Two; Behind the Scenes: Big Idea Tour (00:05:58-00:06:06)
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie DVD (2002)

“Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography, they know nothing about the factors that operate the world. So, they say things that people like to hear. And that gets them elected. Now scientists on the other hand are not concerned with public approval. What they do, even if everybody on earth believe the earth was flat, they would say: 'You're wrong, this is the evidence we have to support the fact that the earth is round' but they don't say: 'it's a little round and a little flat' - that's politicians.”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

“Next time somebody tells you something that sounds important, think to yourself: 'Is this the kind of thing that people probably know because of evidence? Or is it the kind of thing that people only believe because of tradition, authority or revelation?' And, next time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.”

Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain

"Good and Bad Reasons for Believing" [open letter to his daughter]
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)

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