Claims Quotes

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

I feel about John's gospel like I feel about my wife; I love her very much, but I wouldn't claim to understand her.

Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

No one is infallible, and no one can claim a monopoly on truth or virtue. It would be contradictory for skepticism to seek to translate itself into a new faith.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims.

Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars!

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

The government of Iran claims that every two years there are elections. But none of them are free.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.

[Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Whose is it, do you think?" I say finally. "No telling," says Finnick. "Why don't we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.

How can someone like Alain Juppé still claim I haven't condemned the Paris and Brussels attacks, when I actually have. What I am saying is crystal clear.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Al Gore announced Tuesday that he plans to launch a 24-hour cable news network for young adults. Gore claims he's been wanting to do this since he invented cable TV in the 1990s.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.