Nancy Pearcey quotes

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity. (Nancy Pearcey)
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate. View quote
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If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences. View quote
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Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church. View quote
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Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. View quote
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To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. View quote
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. View quote
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America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction. View quote
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power. View quote
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change. View quote
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. (Nancy Pearcey)
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character. View quote
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The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. View quote
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. View quote
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government. View quote
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference. View quote
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent. View quote
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My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives. View quote
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Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life. View quote
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split. View quote
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Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. (Nancy Pearcey)
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally. View quote
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete. View quote
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional. View quote
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The White House should always be a friend to American freedom. View quote
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Nancy Pearcey

Occupation: American Author
Born: 1952
Quotes count: 29