#objection

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#cause #dangerous #evil #extreme #extremists

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#everybody #gives #objections #only #practice

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#absolution #agnosticism #distrust #evasion #health