Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good.… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd wake up extraordinarily early every morning and turn on the television, scanning for episodes of 'The… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What better metaphor for the subliminal state than capitalism? This whole notion that you're trying to do good and make things good… — Owen Pallett Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children.… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Marriage should not be a goal; it should be a choice. One choice available out of many recognized as valid by society.… — David McGee Copy Share Image
Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of… — Kelli Williams Copy Share Image
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures.… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis started off by embracing the Theodore Roosevelt notion that hyphenated Americanism was unpatriotic. You couldn't have dual loyalties. But then… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've always been a big PlayStation fan. Even when the Xbox first came out, I stuck with the PlayStation. I think it's… — Reggie Bush Copy Share Image
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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