“Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage… — Scott L. Vanatter Copy Share Image
As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Be hald, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all. There are to decline your nectared wine, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The decline in American pride, patriotism, and piety can be directly attributed to the extensive reading of so-called 'science fiction' by our… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I'm very concerned about the tone of politics in recent years. We've seen a decline in civility and bipartisanship, and a rapid… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Should you happen to notice that another person is extremely tall or overweight, eats too much or declines convivial drinks, has red… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
With the United States in slow long-term decline, how will that affect the position of English? And where will all that leave… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
Decline and Fall was a very depressing Evelyn Waugh novel, I think it was his first. I didn't get it at all,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner...… — John Cairns Copy Share Image
For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Publications by the World Health Organization show that diphtheria is steadily declining in most European countries, including those in which there has… — Leon Chaitow Copy Share Image
Perpetuating success or sliding into decline is the result of many intersecting forces that reinforce one another directly and indirectly. They are… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
