Ione Skye Quotes

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.

Conservatism, I believe, is mainly due to want of imagination.

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

I think to put someone in a box is somewhat narrow-minded.

There's some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

I'm right, and everyone else is wrong.