#fundamental

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand... I think she's right. I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip. It would take God himself to finally pry them out of my hands. (p.17-18) ↗

— Rachel Held Evans

#fundamentalism #god #death

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time. ↗

— Gary Malone

#creationism #religion #religious-fundamentalism #science #stupidity

The removal of an electron from the surface of an atom - that is, the ionization of the atom - means a fundamental structural change in its surface layer. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#change #electron #fundamental #ionization #layer

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#because #bite #doubted #dust #eventually

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #feel #fundamentally #got #i

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ↗

— Clive Bell

#convince #effective #fundamental #good #liberty

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#because #center #claim #freedom #fundamentalists

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#enormous #fundamental #our #returns #voting

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo. ↗

— Michael Steele

#breakthroughs #cell #cell research #destroy #destroying

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them. ↗

— Allen Tate

#conflicts #deals #does #fundamental #logically