I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
“Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that. — Bruce Bruce Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions,… — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want,… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Two temptations that impair the value of their work inevitably beset public men who write memoirs. One is a tendency to reconstruct… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Daily Telegraph reported on April 9, 1937: 'Since M. Litvinoff ousted Chicherin, no Russian has ever held a high post in… — Arnold Leese Copy Share Image