In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
There isn't [in new atheism]. Nothing that wasn't in Bertrand Russell or probably Robert Ingersoll. But I suppose it is more of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
Thinking about seasteading requires us to free ourselves of these broad political categories we're stuck with on land. People can make whatever… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I’m loving doing Outlander. We’ve got a great cast and we’re up in the Scottish Highlands. […] It’s big budget, they’re spending… — Graham McTavish Copy Share Image
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of,… — Hannah Copy Share Image
But the consequences of the whole-hearted and uncritical embrace of politics by Christians has been, IN EFFECT, to reduce Christian faith to… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science,… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“As the flesh gets in the way of our ideals, we regulate ourselves unto enslavement and inhumanity. The human spirit then dies… — Earl Warhus Copy Share Image
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or,… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot… — Willie Brown Copy Share Image
With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel Copy Share Image
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making.… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
What we have said and - and - and with which I concur is that we should use every diplomatic and political… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there… — Mack McLarty Copy Share Image