The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
You find this watered-down enlightenment sold in mass quantity at yoga studios, high-priced shamanism retreats, DJ-fueled Ecstatic Dance parties, ayahuasca ceremonies, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For children, the era of mass incarceration has meant a tremendous amount of family separation, broken homes, poverty, and a far, far… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
To be proactive is to educate yourself and get the word out via social media, or through one of the many animal-welfare… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I don't think the alternative to Yale is jail by any means. On the other hand, there is a mass of research… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
As light fades and the shadows deepen, all petty and exacting details vanish, everything trivial disappears, and I see things as they… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
The streets of a modern city are depressing. They are so aimless and so weak in their lines and their masses, that… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people,… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Well, first of all, I have to say that Iraq has already used weapons of mass destruction against her own people and… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Media literacy is not just important, it's absolutely critical. It's going to make the difference between whether kids are a tool of… — Linda Ellerbee Copy Share Image
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that… — Laurence Silberman Copy Share Image
In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like, arching exercises… — Seamus Dever Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself ... in a garden any man may be… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Imagine the consequences if Saddam fails to comply and we fail to act. Saddam will be emboldened, believing the international community has… — Sandy Berger Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
