Be Reasonable: Selected Quotations for Inquiring Minds - Hardcover

Wilcox, Laird

 
9780879758677: Be Reasonable: Selected Quotations for Inquiring Minds
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0879758678 ISBN 13: 9780879758677
Verlag: Prometheus, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

A remarkable collection of quotations, aphorisms, and epigrams relating to beliefs, ideologies, superstitions, and fanaticism, covering more than fifteen categories, among them:


- civil liberties
- fanatics and true believers

- intolerance
- individual liberties and personal freedom

- mysticism and religion
- public opinion and mass media

- rationalism
- skepticism

- state power
- utopianism, idealism and reformist zeal

Included are selections from classic and modern authors in all literary genres, both prose and poetry, including Brooks Adams, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, William F. Buckley, Jr., G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Darrow, Henry Fielding, Thomas Jefferson, Baron de Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, Seneca, William Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Jonathan Swift, Margaret Thatcher, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, and hundreds of others.

Quotations in all categories are listed alphabetically by author and indexed for ease of reference. This will prove a standard reference work for writers, educators, students, and all those committed to intellectual freedom and individual liberties.

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Verlag
Prometheus
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0879758678
ISBN 13 
9780879758677
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
361
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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