The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Hot-blooded men make war. It’s up to cool-headed queens like us to make the peace.” — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin). — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
I find the niqab symbol profoundly offensive. I believe it reflects a misogynistic culture that - a treatment of women as property… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The medieval ideas of the "wild wood" was like a cupboard into which they stuffed everything they were afraid of - Wodwose,… — John Matthews Copy Share Image
I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I’m still down with the Devil and I will go medieval on your ass. — The Undertaker Copy Share Image
I do more research about 'Lumberjanes' than I did for a story of medieval knights. — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty… — David Liss Copy Share Image
“Chance! A word void of all meaning to people of the middle age! Everything is a manifestation of the divine will: this… — Achille Luchaire Copy Share Image
When they're shooting, when they're chopping off the heads of our people and other people, when they are chopping off the heads… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.” — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked… — James Cosmo Copy Share Image
I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
