Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally.… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example,… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
