When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
