Ronald Hart Quotes

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

If we we were to intentionally set out to cause the extinction of a species, we should think about that. I would want there to be some consideration and reflection of a social consensus before we take that step.

What most people don't realize is that dams and other structures are not permanent fixtures on the landscape. They are there because we made a political decision to build them. They didn't get there by accident.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

We should never fall into the trap of accepting that all progress as good.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinion.

If you don't look for a problem, you won't find it.

If the artificial is not better than the natural, to what end are all the arts of life? To dig, to plow, to build, to wear clothes, are direct infringements of the injunction to follow nature.

The introduction of genetically engineered (GE) organisms into the complex ecosystems of our environment is a dangerous global experiment with nature and evolution … GE organisms must not be released into the environment. They pose unacceptable risks to ecosystems, and have the potential to threaten biodiversity, wildlife and sustainable forms of agriculture.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.

We're not accustomed to judging things on philosophical importance.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you've been told that doesn't have foundations in evidence.

Just because something exists in the society, it doesn't mean it has to be correct.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

That's the way people are in general: they see everything negatively at first and then choose to ask questions.

Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.

If we no longer judge the content of people's actions, but merely their form, then we are entering dangerous times indeed.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do.

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.