A small group is powerful in matters relating to a particular industry, because then it is normally the only organized force, but… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by… — Thomas Nelson Page Copy Share Image
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Believers often forget that most atheists used to be religious, that many non-believers used to think they had a personal relationship with… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When the first emperor wanted to unify the country, one of the major policies was to create one system of written signs.… — Ha Jin Copy Share Image
The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Anarchism is a definite intellectual current in the life of our times, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people… — Ervin Seale Copy Share Image
Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good that believers call God. Like all… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you've got to know when to say something. But if you are… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all… — Cherie Carter-Scott Copy Share Image
If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against… — Erich von Manstein Copy Share Image
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I think if I were reading to a grandchild, I might read Tolstoy's War and Peace. They would learn about Russia, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image