An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound… — Plato Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry.… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
The fear of loss is an engine of horrors, but also a source of the greatest forms of heroism. There's not a… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“Form serves us best when it works as an obstruction to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, these were lessons I learned by playing with Indian musicians. The rhythmic forms that they use are very… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Hate is just a form of criticism. You can never truly grow as a person until you’ve taken everything the world can… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery,… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
Tao is so important because it is connected to all the life forms - it's related to the whole universe. Nobody can… — Henry Chang Copy Share Image
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed… — William Temple Copy Share Image
Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image