I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Astrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
Early in my career, having many visible tattoos created obstacles and presented quite a challenge to move forward. I've heard comments like,… — Robert LaSardo Copy Share Image
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind… — Joel Silver Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed by a single being in… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The notion of the enduring authority focuses on the fact that some people think that notions like authority of Scripture's is passé,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The dismissive notion that conservatives leak to outlets on the right for ideological reasons ignores the fact that liberals often do the… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
You are confronted with abysses of time that are, in a way, unfathomable. You see a painting in charcoal of raindeer and… — Werner Herzog 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion… — Lynette Fromme Copy Share Image
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
“So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell 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
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