We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did.… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France… — Feist Copy Share Image
America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent… — Daniel J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Under the sanctuary are the catacombs where the dead wait for resurrection. The living do not venture there. The caverns here underneath… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the… — Joe Randazzo Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry,… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are really only two stories the coal industry tells: "Coal keeps the lights on, and by implication, you'll live in medieval,… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the… — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
“he said this turning his strong body to face the beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, astonishing, bewildering girl who was a princess and his… — J.K. Ashton Copy Share Image
If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea -… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American Heritage Dictionary defines crucible as "a place, time, or situation characterized by the confluence of powerful intellectual, social, economic, or… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace… — Tim Schafer Copy Share Image
[E]ncouraging the Muslim world, and particularly the Arab Muslim world, which is the heart of the global terrorist threat - to adopt… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“[...] One chief difference between the medieval "scientist" and the scientist of to-day[1948] lies in the nature of the first principles accepted… — Leon Roth Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan 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
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade,… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
“In the Medieval poem, we are surrounded by Winter, but I always imagined the Green Chapel and the castle of Lord and… — Virginia Chandler Copy Share Image
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