The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the… — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
The book I am best known for, or only known for, is a novel I am prepared to repudiate: written a quarter… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century... During… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
the word 'justification' has itself had a chequered career over the course of many centuries of debate. As the major historian of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in… — Jonathan Sarfati Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Those who take to guns could do so due to deprivation, suppression, or historical legacy. The Afghans have lived through violence for… — Asghar Ali Engineer Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Only in the 20th century, artists started taking the study of perception in a more humane way. They were thinking about the… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people… — Murray Horwitz Copy Share Image
Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose values are… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
the New Englander landed on a stony, barren tract, and a large share of his strength during two centuries has gone to… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of… — Charles Tilly Copy Share Image
I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image