I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“What is it, you ask?" Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. "I haven't thought of a name yet.… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image