Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that… — Pippa Evans Copy Share Image
The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations.… — Paul Baran Copy Share Image
Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to… — Mark S. Fowler Copy Share Image
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
No one ever thinks they’re awful, even people who really actually are. It’s some sort of survival mechanism. — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
People are really beginning to see the mechanisms of imperialism. When colonialism existed people could see colonialism. When racial segregation existed in… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The internet is the most powerful mechanism we can imagine to match perfectly individuals who needs something, and people with something to… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
Back in the really early days, the men went out hunting, the women stayed home with the kids, and would hold the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
You can think of the Health Impact Fund as a mechanism that would keep the benefits and burdens of pharmaceutical innovation for… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
We have to take ISIS oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
