The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's the ultimate identity theft when you start messing with somebody's work. Thinking that you could edit the work, or mix it… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims. — Grace Hightower Copy Share Image
The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom,… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman 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
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A party who bequeaths a note bequeaths the claim and not merely the material on which the writing appears. This is proved… — Ulpian Copy Share Image
Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
