The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game.… — Sir John Richard Hicks Copy Share Image
Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot outwit our successors. So unless we… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Religion's biggest crime is to slow down the Human's Intellectual Evolution! It creates an illusion as if there is a safe port… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
In fact, Obama's intellectual curiosity and suppleness of mind is, in my view, one of his biggest selling points, whatever your political… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more… — Wilfred Grenfell Copy Share Image
Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
