For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the…

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed…

— Deepak Chopra

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves…

— Kurt Eisner

“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system, which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves…

— Kurt Eisner

“The same spine that has been inside her since babyhood is hers today, the exact same bones from the womb, a thought that always…

— Karen Russell

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and…

— Alexander MacLaren

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where…

— Ben Jonson

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a man that which only God…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

— Sarah Bernhardt

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

— Clarence Darrow

What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since…

— Margaret Atwood

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited…

— Maria Montessori