The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid… — Johannes Rau Copy Share Image
The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by… — Ralph Ellison 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
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One of the saddest and most damaging legacies of the [George W.] Bush administration is the increased assertion of the "state secrets"… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the… — Vincenzo Galilei 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
I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an… — Anthony Trollope 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
Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like,… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as… — James Huneker Copy Share Image
In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
For me, the most serious problem is how America became so vulnerable to the assertion of blatant falsehoods that drive policy and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley 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
Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
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