An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception. — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
To all organic conceptions of life Americans oppose a mechanistic conception. In a society which has 'started from scratch', everything has the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
We have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth and the Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's gospel;… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
Ideas are easy to come by, they spring effortlessly out of the vacuity of the mind and cost nothing. When they are… — Robert Beer Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The coarsening of our culture towards violent death has more consequences than war. Tragically, this same culture has led to the death… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The term anarchism has become associated with two phenomena with which real anarchist don't want to associate themselves with. One is violence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church did not always teach that life begins at conception. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image