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Strong Quotes - Page 13

One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.

Gustave Le Bon, Alice Widener (1979). “Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts”, Liberty Fund

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

"Climate change and the value of daring" by Joseph Robertson, David Thoreson, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2016.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2