A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I've always found the thousand dollar dinners more unsettling than the twenty-five-thousand dollar ones --- if someone pays the Republican National Committee… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce… — Percy Barnevik Copy Share Image
Always listen to yourself. It is better to be wrong than to simply follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky with the people I've met over the years. Way back in the early '70s I went to [Phil]… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
The Convention is not only a visionary document. We are reminded daily that it is an agreement that works - and its… — Carol Bellamy Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is going to be onstage introducing his wife, Melania, so I think this is the first time a presidential nominee… — Mark Colvin Copy Share Image
As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I do conventions sometimes every other weekend. Whenever I have time, and it's not too far away. I get a lot of… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention… — Democritus Copy Share Image
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn't. It's a convention. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
