To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Thi is the malady onf the humans, that they can hold on to that which is fleeting and of little consequence and… — Chris Fabry Copy Share Image
Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Training moments occur when both parents and children do their jobs. The parent's job is to make the rule. The child's job… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We find ourselves, one way or another, in the midst of a large-scale experiment to change the chemical construction of the stratosphere,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
There are certain indicia of marriage - certain legal and social consequences and certain legitimacy - which if given to some relationship… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society had enormous… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The joyful news for anyone who desires to be rid of the consequences of past poor choices is that the Lord sees… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I just heard that some lead was coming into Newark into schools, and I asked the question, "Whose schools?" They said, "The… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The issue in the Bible is not just "Do you believe in God or not?" Everybody believed in gods of some sort.… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow -… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Because of their origin and purpose, the meanings of art are of a different order from the operational meanings of science and… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
