With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian… — Thomas Dwight Copy Share Image
There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love… — Graham Greene 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
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines,… — Henry David Thoreau 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
Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my car and… — Peter Criss Copy Share Image
It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be… — Mike Piazza Copy Share Image
Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics,… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
We use and need to use both systems in complex political societies, and we oscillate in our commitments, because both oligarchy and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than… — Robert Emerson Coleman Copy Share Image
We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Photons come out of nowhere, they cannot be stored, they can barely be pinned down in time, and they have no home… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
... there hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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