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The moral obligation to be skeptical

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 31, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories informed electorateTags Bergan Evans

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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