John Money Quotes

Millions are spend annually on the cultivation and dissemination of science by the public authorities who will not give a penny for the advancement of astrology or sorcery. In other words, our society is deeply committed to beliefs about the nature of things, beliefs which are different from those to which the early Egyptian or Aztec civilizations were committed.

Humanity would never tolerate it

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

We should be tolerant to people who are tolerant to us. We should be intolerant to people who are intolerant to us.

I rock up to training, and Folkesy, Steve Folkes - someone that, to be honest, has never paid any interest in my personal life - he comes up to me and starts saying, 'You're not turning Muslim are you?'

I support Richard Spencer's right to say what he wants. He can be nasty about Jewish people, he has a right to free speech, but I don't want to be a part of that.

Political correctness, to me, is an enemy.

Culture is a reflection of values.

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?

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

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic.

Liberalism must be intolerant of every sort of intolerance.

To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Let us therefore reject all superstition in order to become more human; but in speaking against fanaticism, let us not imitate the fanatics: they are sick men in delirium who want to chastise their doctors. Let us assuage their ills, and never embitter them, and let us pour drop by drop into their souls the divine balm of toleration, which they would reject with horror if it were offered to them all at once.