My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all…

“Even the plainest of events is tied down by a thick tangle of permutation and possibility, but the human mind struggles with such complexity.…

— Bernard Beckett

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential…

— Major Taylor

“No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”

— Babara Tuchman

There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty…

— Zygmunt Bauman

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian,…

— Amartya Sen

My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made…

— Shabana Azmi

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

— Dennis Prager

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP -- an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks…

— Cintra Wilson

I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time…

— Martin A. Siegel

We talk a lot about how abortion is a medical procedure, but actually if you look at what the other side is doing, they're…

— Nancy Northup

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

Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that…

— Thomas Sowell

“An ideological movement is a collection of people many of whom could hardly bake a cake, fix a car, sustain a friendship or a…

— Kenneth Minogue

The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of…

— Carl Schmitt