Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior… The mere fact that a school… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they… — Sung Won Sohn Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning."… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting… — H. Verlan Andersen Copy Share Image
Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume… — Jacquetta Hawkes Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in… — Thandie Newton Copy Share Image
Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my… — James L. Kraft Copy Share Image
Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
You could fly under the radar a little bit. You could be a weird kid without defaulting to gay, without everyone assuming… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with… — Kristian Birkeland Copy Share Image
It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image