The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden Copy Share Image
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of… — Koichiro Matsuura Copy Share Image
That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any… — Carrie Snow Copy Share Image
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to… — Henry Manne Copy Share Image
It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green Copy Share Image
The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
When you try to cool down hot emotions, what tends to happen is that you end up either repressing them or losing… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
