Quotes About Being Discredited

#1. Political science came into being as alchemy was being discredited, although history has since proved that alchemy had a better record.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#2. Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the greatest material comforts.

Ayn Rand

#3. This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised, mocked.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.

George Orwell

#5. The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Douglas Alexander

#6. Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Wassily Kandinsky

#7. Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

Maajid Nawaz

#8. I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.

Ann Coulter

#9. The city fathers discredited themselves with their silly exercise in extreme social rectitude.

Mel Gordon

#10. The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. The central argument of structuralism is in essence a restatement of the discredited argument of linguistic positivism that language is the only reality since knowledge can only be expressed and communicated in linguistic form.

Simon Clarke

#12. The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of the universe. Discredited and discarded by Einstein, the aether is now making a Nixonian comeback. It's really the vacuum, but burdened by theoretical, ghostly particles.

Leon M. Lederman

#13. Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

Bobby Henderson

#14. As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War - they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -or any honest intellectual inquiry.

Stephen Jay Gould

#16. By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.

Thomas Sowell

#17. Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

Margaret Thatcher

#18. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Rush Limbaugh

#19. Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Joseph Sobran

#20. I would not have discredited every one of their compliments. It was your approval I wanted, your congratulations.

Alanis Morissette

#21. Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

Christopher Dodd

#22. In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Sallust

#23. Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

Albert J. Nock

#24. A genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#25. Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

John Walford

#26. Donald Trump lied about criticizing Mark Zuckerberg.Ben Carson lied about Mannatech.Carli Fiorina lied about the size of the tax code.Marco Rubio flatly refused to answer a question ("discredited attacks from Democrats") that I guess he didn't think he could just lie about. This is quite a debate.

Kevin Drum

#27. Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind.

David Zinczenko

#28. Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everything is war

Bob Marley

#29. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realisable.

George Orwell

#30. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Jim DeMint

#31. Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

William Hague

#32. Although thoroughly discredited and defanged, the Bund, in the public mind,

Lynne Olson

#33. Ancient, vicious, discredited ideas backed with adolescent war mania. It's

Iain M. Banks

#34. But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.

George Orwell

#35. No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

Douglas Yates

#36. Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money. The object is to recognize the trend whose premise is false, ride that trend and step off before it is discredited.

George Soros

#37. Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Haile Selassie

#38. When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Anand Gopal

#39. The past is discredited because it is not modern. Not to be modern is the great sin. So, perhaps, it is. But every one has, in his day, been modern. And surely even modernity is a poor thing beside immortality. Since we must all die, is it not perhaps better to be a dead lion than a living dog?

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#40. OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

Ambrose Bierce

#41. He had a dilapidated body and a face like the last days of the Raj: jowly, discredited, eager for the final defeat.

Eve Tushnet

#42. If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

Rush Limbaugh

#43. Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

Kurt Vonnegut

#44. I will be able to love above all discontentment.
To give even when I am stripped of everything.
To dry tears even when I am still crying.
To believe even when I am discredited.

Paulo Coelho

#45. For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

George W. S. Trow

#46. By the 1800s, animal sacrifice had been largely discredited as a medical procedure; today it is rarely used outside of Miami.

Dave Barry