Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“He sounded positively hostile. I could tell he was about to hang up. “Wait a minute. Who’s IYCGM?” “If you can’t get… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I really like to have a coffee shop next door and be able to smoke a cigarette. I'm a city person; I… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We move through soundscapes all the time, and most of them are accidental - a by-product. Most retail soundscapes are accidental, incongruent… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan,… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say, as anonymous messages are delivered… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it… — Norman Geisler Copy Share Image
The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years,… — J. Anthony Lukas Copy Share Image
We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was… — James Comey Copy Share Image
You are going to have hostile crowds and the fans are going to find out where you are staying and keep you… — Cobi Jones Copy Share Image
We have to create a world in which there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other end of any missiles, and… — Betty Williams Copy Share Image
