There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived… — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
That's what I always loved about [Federico] Fellini's films: You see the weird joy of the weird filmmaking family and the abstract… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I want people to know what it is they're looking at. But at the same time, the closer they get to the… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
I should describe mine own nature as tripartite, my interests consisting of three parallel and dissociated groups - (a) Love of the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I love going to the runway shows. It's not so much for me a shopping trip as it is the appreciation of… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater,… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
I've learnt over the years to always be thinking of titles and ideas that I try to put across with just a… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me,… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Reich described the redirection of unmet desires as sublimation, in which natural libidinal urges and raw bodily drives for connection and release… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
These days people believe they can go into art and make a living. We didn't have that. The abstract expressionists were older,… — Brice Marden Copy Share Image
And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he… — Danny Elfman Copy Share Image
I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
I think they should have movies in restaurants. I can't believe that so many people get together just to sit there. It's… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image