The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The arc of my mind has an equal swing in all directions. I should say the same of your mind if I… — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
There exists in society a very special class of persons that I have always referred to as the Believers. These are folks… — James Randi Copy Share Image
Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
For many people - from secular feminists to observant Jews - the notion of a feminist Judaism is an oxymoron. — Judith Plaskow Copy Share Image
It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that… — Paula Scher Copy Share Image
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success.… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is… — Daniel Lieberman Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The notion of people commenting on you, the notion of people saying things about you, people liking or disliking you and getting… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
