The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the… — Jean de Joinville Copy Share Image
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The Indian government has managed to turn the concept of nonviolence on its head. Nonviolent resistance and nonviolent governance. Unlike, say, China… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
We are on a sexual binge in this country. ... One consequence of this binge is that while people now get into… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
...we must also acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue to live daily in situations of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as… — Jose Clemente Orozco Copy Share Image
Because of the expensive system and the competition among various groups, democracy needs a lot of money. As a natural consequence it… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It has been said that England invented the phrase, 'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am.… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences,… — James Mill Copy Share Image
