When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I guess when I'm frightened or in pain or maybe very bored I've tried to hold myself together by imposing a narrative… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
We should condemn as unjust a global economic order that leads to ever-increasing economic disparities - provided this effect is foreseeable and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing,… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I cut an imposing figure. I am large, and I'm tall, and I have tattoos. I am actually really quiet and shy,… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise… — Ronald L. Buckwalter Copy Share Image
We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands, and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done -… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one.… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
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