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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists.… — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car,… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
This notion that you hear from his surrogates and his fans throughout the campaign - "Trump tells it like it is; he's… — Jennifer Pozner Copy Share Image
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it… — George Takei Copy Share Image
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The real problem is that "limited government" invariably leads to unlimited government. If history is to be any guide and current experience… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
I is a great prison. It is your slavery and bondage to the mind. The moment you enter beyond the mind, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He tried to give his wife pleasure in little ways, because he had come to realize, after nearly two decades together, how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image