No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as 'successful' and 'unsuccessful' to the awful, final act of suicide, that those… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The assumption that the egoless condition, or union of self and God, is man's final goal and ultimate destiny is a great… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
There is nothing there - no soul - there is only this question about after death. The question has to die now… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Once you start to ask patients about their priorities, you discover what they're living for. Once you uncover that, it helps you,… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath,… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good… — Marvin Kalb Copy Share Image
We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A lot of people get the assumption that because someone is able to sit here in front of a camera and speak… — Zoe Sugg Copy Share Image
Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are… — Thomas Campbell Copy Share Image
Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . .… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be… — Seth Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and… — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
It is surely one of the curious paradoxes of history that science which professionally has little to do with faith, owes its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
Today neither of our two parties maintains a meaningful commitment to the principle of States' Rights. The 10th Amendment is not a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image