Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been… — Christabel Pankhurst Copy Share Image
When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“A dark-haired young woman met Taylor’s eye. A mixture of revulsion and longing crossed the woman’s face, quickly replaced by a hardness,… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Without uncertainty and the unknown, life is just a stale repetition of outworn memories. You become the victim of the past, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the… — Gerhard Schroder Copy Share Image
The main difference is, in 'Cold Case,' the victim sometimes had been dead for decades - you didn't have the advantage of… — Danny Pino Copy Share Image
“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“A victim act is a form of passive aggression. It seeks to achieve gratification not by honest work or a contribution made… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
“Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative… — Ruth A. Lanius Copy Share Image
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
“To the extreme of this feeling I was ever a victim. The heavy responsibility, often suddenly and unexpectedly imposed—the struggle for success,… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
When we start helping the weak and the poor to rise everyone will begin to change. Those who have power and riches… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Niten's eyes didn't move, but a trace of a smile curled his lips. "I do not need my eyes to tell me… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take… — Bill James Copy Share Image
The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“He’s not auctioning off the right to choose a victim. In fact, the auction winner has no say about who gets killed.”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History has shown that the greater power of the gun is its power to deter. Bear in mind that criminals, by definition,… — Massad Ayoob Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition,… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
