“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
How unnatural the imposed view, imposed by a puritanical ethos, that passionate love belongs only to the young, that people are dead… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
I'm curious about other universes, and nonhuman elementals. For me it's still a very lively ethos. It's a kind of practice. It's… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I do not agree with many of the views that have been expressed by our MPs, but they are of course welcome… — Annamie Paul Copy Share Image
“Nihilists... F#$% me. I mean say what you will about the tenets of national socialism dude, at least it's an ethos” — Big Lebowski Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl - and look at the ailing aching state a young wife… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Students being miseducated, criminalized and arrested through a form of penal pedagogy in prison-type schools provide a grim reminder of the degree… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image