Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive,… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
Peace does not dwell in outward things but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain,… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The two-thirds rule of the Senate, which can be changed only by constitutional amendment, will no doubt continue for a long time… — Thomas A. Bailey Copy Share Image
If you're fighting the system, then you're still caught in it. It's not about fighting the system; it's about ceasing to hold… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton,… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is… — William James Copy Share Image
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“Did it ever occur to you, Charlie, that tolerance can reach a point where it is no longer tolerance? When that happens,… — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius),… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
