I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Parents must bring light and truth into their homes by one family prayer, one scripture study session, one family home evening, one… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Non-violence is backed by the theory of soul-force in which suffering is courted in the hope of ultimately winning over the opponent.… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
It would be great if we had our own personal force fields. Just imagine creating your own architecture in your room. Buildings.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than politicians… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms… — George Lee Butler Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime!… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
China is a main energy consumer and, therefore, is also a big greenhouse gas emitter. We must use energy resources rationally and… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will."… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The veto is a President's Constitutional right, given to him by the drafters of the Constitution because they wanted it as a… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
You will deal with ignorant, opinionated and innocent people. You will often have an opportunity to cheat them. If they could, they… — Alexander Turney Stewart Copy Share Image
If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
