Socialism appeals to me. It's like imposed Christianity…

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

— Miroslav Volf

Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes;…

— John Bates Clark

Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life,…

— Yann Martel

The fact is that there is a profound spiritual hunger in the western world which, for a variety of reasons, its church is no…

— Melanie Phillips

In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

— Hari Kunzru

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

— Quentin Crisp

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads to adults…

— Mike Berenstain

The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,…

— Gaston Rebuffat

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

I liked wrestling a lot better than boxing. I remember thinking at that time that wrestling was a pure demonstration of strength, which I…

— Scott Carpenter

It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

— Ron Fournier

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

— Sade Adu

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There…

— Kevin Drum

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

— Peg Bracken