The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claims to perform that service are imperious. — Nathan Hale Copy Share Image
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class. — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There aren’t many honest men or women in Washington anymore. Politicians get where they are by the sheer force of their egos,… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think the reason the stories are briskly paced, when they are, is that I like story. I like stories where things… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The new century demands new partnerships for peace and security. The United Nations plays a crucial role, with allies sharing burdens America… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it was found… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For the sake of public discourse, for the demands of the free market, and for the value we place in citizen advocacy,… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Is Christianity fair? It is certainly not fair to God. Christians believe that God sent His Son to die for your sins… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have always found the word 'Europe' on the lips of those who wanted something from others which they dared not demand… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Imagination paints a charming view of the future, conveniently adapted to the demands of our current emotion. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. — Robert K. Merton Copy Share Image
God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the… — Steve Cropper Copy Share Image
God will never demand the thing you don't have; he will always demand the thing you want to keep. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
