Top Burden Of Proof Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Burden Of Proof quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Carol Moseley Braun
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
- Carol Moseley Braun
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Jo Nesbo
I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.
- Jo Nesbo
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Robert Higgs
In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.
- Robert Higgs
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Clay Shirky
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.
- Clay Shirky
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Noam Chomsky
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Robert M. Price
The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmonizing shows is that despite appearances, the texts still might be true.
- Robert M. Price
Collection: Burden Of Proof
Image of Mitch Daniels
The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.
- Mitch Daniels
Collection: Burden Of Proof