With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional,… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I suppose people also have to be a little more careful or circumspect if they're going to leverage their celebrity to promote… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I know that what's happened in the election has changed American reality, and I understand that I have to change with it.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
True Islam taught me that it takes all of the religious, political, economic, psychological, and racial ingredients, or characteristics, to make the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
There are actually no political aspirations. I think you need to have the right attitude and aptitude for it. I don't think… — Sonakshi Sinha Copy Share Image
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Well, you know, in any political campaign, you're gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
Hunger is a political issue, and there are several things politically that are keeping people hungry - not funding food stamps adequately,… — Tom Colicchio Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future,… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The police force has repeatedly demonstrated an inability and unwillingness to carry out its fundamental mandate: to serve and protect the people… — Joshua Wong Copy Share Image
I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred… the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't… — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
