During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet… — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it.… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Just as a human soul that faces great difficulties also faces great opportunities for spiritual growth, so a human society that faces… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The Kennedy Administration's public pronouncements on the matter suggested that the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Castro's Cuba would represent an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of… — Sam Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I’m increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
You cannot send battleships in to stop the destruction of a rainforest. But you can spend money on clean technology transfer that… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image