Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them,… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The story wafts across the Atlantic, where it's picked up with glee by Catholic progressives and horror by some Catholic conservatives -… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards 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
It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern,… — Ian O'Doherty Copy Share Image
What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an… — Benjamin Franklin 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
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
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. — Reinhold Niebuhr 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
Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Passivity will bring you short-term popularity, assertiveness will bring you respect.” — Robin Parry Copy Share Image
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
