It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality. — Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh Copy Share Image
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. — Denis Healey Copy Share Image
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption. — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man… — Ben Ames Williams Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I think the daily challenge for a lot of beat reporters is, how do you get past the regurgitated sound bites of… — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image