Pseudo Quotes

You could go to a store, buy an MP3, pay with e-cash and walk away... And you might do that under your music-listening pseudonym. That way, they can give you great referrals, but they don't know who you are. - Austin Hill

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology. - Frank Tipler

We should always try to acquire as much knowledge as possible but at the same time we should be careful not to let pseudo-knowledge influence us. - Atharva Veda

We knew that in anthropology the question of ethics is a really big deal. She was very careful. It was only when she started thinking about publication that in order to protect the students she needed (a pseudonym). - Frances Benson

We have identified three organized gangs and four neighborhood crews operating within the city. For a lot of youth these gangs offer some type of structure to their lives. Gangs and crews provide a pseudo-family component. - Ludwig P. Gaines

War has been the most convenient pseudo-solution for the problems of twentieth-century capitalism. It provides the incentives to modernization and technological revolution which the market and the pursuit of profit do only fitfully and by accident, it makes the unthinkable (such as votes for women and the abolition of unemployment) not merely thinkable but practicable. What is equally important, it can re-create communities of men and give a temporary sense to their lives by uniting them against foreigners and outsiders. This is an achievement beyond the power of the private enterprise economy when left to itself. - E. J. Hobsbawm

These ministries have merged pseudo-science with religious beliefs to create, in effect, a new religion, ... Eventually they will collapse under the weight of their deceit. But as long as they survive we will have trouble winning any political battles. - Wayne Besen

There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship. - Allan Bloom