All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“We have to understand that medicine is not simply a science. It's much more than that. It's also an ideology. It's a… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“And suddenly the driver remembered how he'd once promised himself that if he became God in the end, he'd be merciful and… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What I say is it's not that Obama hates America. It's not that he's a traitor, that he's a secret Muslim, that… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
“So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Literature is an aspect of story and story is all that exists to make sense of reality. War is a story. Now… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teaching Plato in Palestine shows how philosophical thinking can illuminate important topics-in particular, the problem of finding ways to engage people with… — Gary Gutting Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
A sannyasin is one who has no prejudices, who has not chosen any ideology to be his own, who is choicelessly aware… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he… — Ernesto "Che" Guevara Copy Share Image
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The different political systems, religions and social habits demonstrate that the same brain can be tuned in different manners. But the tuning… — Rodolfo Llinas Copy Share Image
And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Technology always embodies ideology, and the ideology in question was one of difference, recognition, and individuality. But commerce bows to none, taking… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Mannheim believed that ideologizing influences, while they could not be eradicated completely, could be mitigated by the systematic analysis of as many… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image