The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself. — Trisha Goddard Copy Share Image
After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It's certainly anyone's prerogative to say, 'I liked something more when it was this' or blah blah. But there's a kind of… — Justin Kirk Copy Share Image
Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter. — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd… — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's… — James McNerney Copy Share Image
'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously.… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to think they know what acting techniques are. Techniques just help you get to a certain place, but if the… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance. — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
