Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few… — Moby Copy Share Image
At the crowded Costanzi Theater in Rome, while I was listening to the orchestral performance of your overwhelming Futurist music,1 together with… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one… — Jan Brewer Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image