What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France Copy Share Image
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives. — Jan Phillips Copy Share Image
There is one thing new in sexual mores and that is today's bisexual chic. ... if you can't truthfully claim to be… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24… — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying… — Kevin Warwick Copy Share Image
A mother can legitimately be said to 'have a baby' - but in a civilization such as ours, she can never claim… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
In "The Myth of Sisyphus", his most important non-fiction work, Albert Camus suggested that if we believed what most people claim to… — Philip French Copy Share Image
From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The plea agreement negotiated by Janet Reno's Justice Department with Nora, Gene and Trisha Lum is a hoax. It allows two key… — Larry Klayman Copy Share Image
The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Breathes there a man with soul so dead that it does not glow at the thought of what the men of his… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us… — Paul Hellyer Copy Share Image
