On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
It was very pleasurable and easy and it was nice to work with friends... people I already knew, people I didn't know… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and… — Sonny Rollins Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Western countries allow no freedom of expression, which they claim to advocate, with regard to the myth of the massacre of Jews… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Again: there is nothing inherently superior about resistance. All our claims for the righteousness of resistance rest on the rightness of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Those who actually do have a valid claim to such special competence have a particular obligation to make very clear to the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009… — Howie Carr Copy Share Image
Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic 'scientists', now claims that you can email homeopathic remedies? Yeah,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event.… — Craig Groeschel Copy Share Image
Jews are told that they should spend their lives helping others and when they make a lot of money it really bothers… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it.… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as… — Kafu Nagai Copy Share Image
That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible,… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
