Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power…

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their…

— Ayn Rand

I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to…

— Ayn Rand

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For…

— Arundhati Roy

Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business…

— Ayn Rand

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…

— Ayn Rand

The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

— Harold Rosenberg

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to…

— Albert Pike

Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…

— Aristotle

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it…

— Frantz Fanon

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

— Clayton Christensen

The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's…

— Campbell Scott

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon…

— Wyndham Lewis