When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Obama dreams of a society without power relations, without the agonism that constitutes political life. Against such a position one might assert… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word… — Thomas Hughes Copy Share Image
Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
This is how proofiness works. The assertion is more important than the evidence itself. — David Corn Copy Share Image
If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
