When I post spiritual related quotes, why do people think that the quote is mine?

Question

I think that I make myself clear enough that a quote is a quote and I'm not quoting myself.

All one has to do is to look below the quote and see whom I am quoting.


I often use quotes in my q's and this never means that I take them as truth, I am simply seeking perspective of others, so why do you think I get attacked for things that I have no set opinion one way or another?

OK, I am using this q to make myself clear. I most often ask questions because I have no real answer to them. If I did, I would have no need to ask.

Just sayin'...

But back to this q, this time.... do you think that people read quotes and accept them as quotes or if I use them for whatever reason, is the assumption made that I am preaching them?

Thanks!

Answer 1

"Try using quotation marks" is what I say

Answer 2

I'll answer your question with an example.



"Man will not be free until the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

-- Denis Diderot



Do you think that quote from the French Revolution expresses an opinion I consider important and probably agree with? Of course it does. Isn't that why people use memorable quotes -- because someone else said it so perfectly?



Your readers know it's a quotation and presume you put it there for persuasive reasons of your own. Your own text should agree and amplify the thought (usually), or disagree and explain why. Just adding a quote, as a mere decoration, with no apparent relevance, is archaic pseudo-intellectualism and insults your readers -- much like Christians who spout Scripture to claim the authoritative final word and insult those with whom they disagree.

Answer 3

because your the one saying it, and saying it implies that you believe it unless you say you don't