Claims Quotes · Page 17

I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a…

— Barry Goldwater

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims there are no homosexuals in Iran, just like there are no gay conservatives in the US.

— Jon Stewart

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer…

— Conan O'Brien

I never hear anything about education. Education - I guess it's just not sexy enough. And everybody claims to love their children…

— Mitch Albom

There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or…

— Jonathon Keats

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different…

— George Orwell

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had…

— Jane Austen

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was…

— Carrie Coon

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its…

— Rabindranath Tagore

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply…

— Thomas Merton

This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make…

— Michael Moore

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such…

— Anthony Trollope

For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But…

— Lord Acton

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted…

— Sam Harris

The claims [about my inappropriate conduct with women] are preposterous, ludicrous, and defy truth, common sense and logic. We already have substantial…

— Donald Trump

“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims…

— Anonymous

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has…

— Lysander Spooner

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know,…

— Michael Haneke

Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has…

— Akbar

Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and…

— Michael Ruse

It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow…

— Judith Ortiz Cofer

If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified…

— Michael Parenti

I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim…

— Barack Obama