Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and… — Daniel Pauly Copy Share Image
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The notion that only those who preach the gospel of integrated medicine are able to perform the art of medicine is as… — Edzard Ernst Copy Share Image
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling - their ideas, their version of history, their… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Why are solutions not just as newsworthy as problems? The notion that hostility is necessary all the time to create interest and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Speculative Philosophy is the endeavour to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of… — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced… — Richard van der Riet Woolley Copy Share Image
claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image