Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for… — Lee Adams Copy Share Image
Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes. — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is… — Edward Lawrie Tatum Copy Share Image
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending.… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian, nor am I a priest or a minister, but I think building walls is fundamentally contrary to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering… — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
A business man's conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal. They are:… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Voting the names of the dead, and the nonexistent, and the too-mentally-impaired to function, cancels out the votes of citizens who are… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
While the president is to nominate that individual [to Supreme Court], we in the Senate must provide our advice and consent. This… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them. — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Customer service will become the primary value added function of every business. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges,… — John Berger Copy Share Image