The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say… — Sara Harrison Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Every seemingly arbitrary destructive action is a reaction of the organism to the frustration of a gratification of a vital need, especially… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men.… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people,… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
