We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels… — Andrew Evans Copy Share Image
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism. — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of its capabilities. Do you understand? — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I want to be challenged, I want to keep challenging myself - whether or not it's changing yourself physically or just pushing… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two… — Nneka Copy Share Image
Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
