The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
I'm like a middle-aged person; when my friends go on about modern bands, I don't know what they are talking about. I'm… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our… — Jens Jensen Copy Share Image
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
I've always aligned myself with a more modern, European fit. I maintain that fit is the thing that makes or breaks an… — Henrik Lundqvist Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I want everyone to know that Russia in general and the Russian leadership, it is something effective and properly functioning. That the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
