Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge… — Matthew Collings Copy Share Image
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot… — Walter Duranty Copy Share Image
The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain. — George Archer Copy Share Image
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to… — Russel Honore Copy Share Image
When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from… — Theodore Levitt Copy Share Image
“But the mass itself had been so boring that even her fantasies of rescuing Jesus and giving him a tender, thorough sponge… — Emma Törzs Copy Share Image
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in… — Raya Dunayevskaya Copy Share Image
To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to… — James Stenson Copy Share Image
We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay silent, because… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You've probably been asked to care about things like HIV/AIDS or T.B. or measles, but diarrhea kills more children than all those… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
I worry most about proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in such a way that they could be acquired by non-governmental organizations,… — James L. Jones Copy Share Image
