Sentences with phrase «of dangerous ideas»

«This bill is a collection of dangerous ideas that will undermine women's health,» said Cecile Richards, president of PPFA.

The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, held in late August at the Opera House, is a newer addition to the line - up that, per its title, always stirs up controversy and has nabbed some seriously cool names (in 2014, Salman Rushdie and the brilliant New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum debated whether television has replaced the novel).

At a «Festival of Dangerous Ideas» held in Australia from October 3rd to 4th in the Sydney Opera House, Cardinal George Pell,...

, NOTHING should be «taken out on the filmmaker» as you say, this is America, still at least partially the land of free speech, EVERY opinion should be able to be voiced without repercussion, especially those critical of dangerous ideas (religion).

It is wrong to not allow critique of dangerous ideas that strip away boundaries and consent.

Then they would go on to teach some sort of dangerous idea about how a favorite «prophecy» doesn't actually point to Jesus, or how a favorite text doesn't mean what most Christians think, or how the misuse and misunderstanding of a particular point of theology could lead to sin.

In the radically individualistic claims made for privacy by many liberal theorists, we see the introduction of a dangerous idea of autonomy or practical self - sufficiency into political discourse.

They didn't need psychotherapy to recover from years of waterboarding and food deprivation tactics opposed on them to take hold of a dangerous idea.

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To some brands, however, the idea of mobile payments seems confusing, intimidating or dangerous.

As allegations continue to rain down on powerful media moguls (like the recently - convicted comedian Bill Cosby), as well as high - profile politicians, doctors, members of Congress and male journalists, the idea that power can be a dangerous tool of manipulation is shifting into the mainstream.

you can also fill the airwaves of all these surrounding nations with disruptive ideas / propaganda like freedom of the press, individual liberty, economic opportunity, etc. — dangerous ideas to the surrounding kleptocracies / oligarchies.

It's based on the ideas she was already teaching her students about how to break out of potentially dangerous patterns of learned silence.

The work is still in it's early stages — «Any effort to use electric current for stimulating the brain outside the laboratory or clinic could be dangerous and should be strongly discouraged,» Green cautions — but there are already places where the idea of electrical stimulation is being tested out in the real world.

The Bounce ball, equipped with a camera and motion sensors, sends images and data to a smartphone to provide emergency personnel with an idea of what's inside the potentially dangerous space they're about to enter.

Among Musk's concerns regarding AI are the idea that artificial intelligence could become dangerous if it evolves past the point of human intelligence, and that unregulated AI could potentially be used to start global conflicts by «manipulating information.»

There is a dangerous movement afoot; the idea that registration of your images on the blockchain is a cheap and simple alternative to registration with the United...

The Harper government showed its contempt for the whole idea of workplace health and safety by making it more difficult to refuse dangerous work a year or so ago.

While we can learn from the ideas of others, to blindly follow them is dangerous.

Nutrition as well, is a load of nonsense, and just like Keynes, it had its own con artist, Ancel Keys, who has popularized the absolutely criminal idea that animal fats are dangerous, that carbohydrates are essential, that 6 - 10 servings of grains a day are necessary, that seed oils are not just edible but also healthy, and so on.

Ten years ago, the idea that focusing on price stability could actually contribute to the buildup of dangerous imbalances was very much a minority view.

But not one of us wanted to suggest such a dangerous idea.

The idea that our founding fathers were pure and we've drifted away from God due to Satan's continual efforts is a dangerous foundation upon which to make the heavy decisions of the Office of President.

The fact of the matter is simple: The idea of adulthood is a dangerous one for young adults venturing out into «the real world,» whatever that may be.

Adelina, if your ideas are an example of what and how «Conservative \ Republican» think, it's no wonder that everyone else thinks you guys are insane (dangerous to everyone including yourselves).

• After Germaine Greer said that freedom is the world's most dangerous idea, and sex columnist Dan Savage picked population control, newspaper columnist Peter (brother of Christopher) Hitchens declared on Australian TV that «the most dangerous idea in human history and philosophy remains the belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God and rose from the dead.»

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

Sometimes in direct attack, as in the Roman persecutions of early centuries and the Nazi and Communist movements of our time, sometimes through sneers and the opposition of hostile public opinion, Christianity has had to defend itself against those who believed the false or utopian ideas of its founder to be dangerous.

Because the odds of «dangerous» ideas espoused by a carpenter walking around, preaching in an occupied land peacefully overtaking the Roman Empire (the most powerful man - made force on the planet at the time) and shaping civilization, Western and beyond, are almost as remote as the odds of you forgoing your delusional confidence in your ability for rational thought or facts, giving him credit for being exactly who he said he was.

If our mental filter is «to find the dangerous ideas», then we will find them in the words of Jesus.

But as church history and personal experience reveal, no church can completely guard the minds and hearts of the people who attend that church from different theology and dangerous ideas.

The rules have changed my friend, and the free ride of deference to silly and dangerous ideas has long past.

On the other hand, nothing could be more dangerous than importing Western ideas into the subject matter or working with categories adopted from the history of Western philosophy.

Yet Prof. Carlin finds the concept of animal rights to be «extraordinarily dangerous» and considers those who promote this idea to be «enemies of the human race.»

We understand that the idea of being the «chosen people» is that we are / were chosen for a very difficult, dangerous task of bring the idea of monotheism to the world.

I have no idea how he is so high in polls, or even still in the race, but his ideas are not only dangerous for the founding principles of the US, but it is also potentially dangerous for atheists, agnostics, pagans, and others who do not believe in an Abrahamic god.

Either we must accept the idea that Christianity, to some degree, seems to align itself with such violence or we must assume that hundreds of apparently faithful Christians were deceived by a dangerous con man.

The God of the Bible is free and dangerous, offending our human sense of propriety and our human ideas of justice both negatively and positively.

The big idea: Perhaps Gladwell's most dangerous book due to the ease of its misapplication, Blink explores the brain» sremarkable aptitude for lightning - fast processing.

There is, to be sure, an element of «put - down» here: I intend to put down the arrogant delusion of intellectuals that they are superior human beings and the even more dangerous idea that, by virtue of their putatively superior qualities, they constitute a moral or even political elite.

Or the pair of evangelical professors who wrote an article in The New York Times, criticizing evangelical leaders for their «rejection of knowledge» and for embracing «discredited, ridiculous and even dangerous ideas» — such as believing that homosexual behavior is sinful and that Darwin was wrong.

We on the left thought that the dangerous parts of the idea would just disappear, but somehow they don't.

Other ideas were formed in a brief breathing space after days of exposure to physical danger in the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Chicago and the dangerous roads of Mississippi.

As soon as we assume ideas are self evident, we're likely developing a dangerous form of binary thinking.

In The Idea of a University he views the new discipline of political economy as valuable in its proper place but showing dangerous tendencies towards usurping the domains of ethics and theology.

Precisely because this letter is by no means fanatical in tone, it well illustrates the conjunction of ideas which is so widespread — and so dangerous.

People acting as if non-violence is not an answer — but I am not saying we don't get involved — let's not pass into the idea of how much violence we will use — because that's dangerous «evil» territory — allow a little in and soon we are talking about how much gunshots fired into a person is «normal»?

Just don't glare at me when I say the very concept of a big Magic guy in the sky pre-determining every action within the universe seem highly unlikely; and I would go on to say, and could prove, also a very dangerous idea.

The very idea of building a mosque there is a dangerous sign of Muslim demands on Western societies, says British authority Douglas Murray — and it shows that the U.S. must make a stand.

Indeed, it is all the more dangerous because it is an easy temptation, and it releases its practitioners from the hard work of understanding the ideas.

John C. Calhoun, in being removed, was awarded an odd sort of honor: His ideas were treated as relevant and dangerous.