... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“i am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia I don't give a fuck” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George Copy Share Image
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Although socialism is widely held by the establishment to be outdated, the things that are most popular in British society today are… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV,… — Randall Wright Copy Share Image
“I will say one thing about those males, there is never a dull moment." Peri suddenly appeared causing everyone to jump. "Bloody… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
