You should go to picture-galleries and museums of sculpture to be acted upon, and not to express or try to form your… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
On coming to the house, they (the Magi), saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him.… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ...… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most important… — Jeffrey Herf Copy Share Image
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
Growing up in the '80s, questions of style and music and youth culture all seemed inherently political - like gay rights issues,… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called… — Tom Quinn Copy Share Image
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As long as you know you are doing the right thing then you do not need to answer to anyone. The only… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. If the sparks… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a creature of the alt-weekly universe - my real education into higher culture was acquired in coffee shops, reading… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
Donald Trump never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Here's an issue where his concern is this line with public opinion,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over...… — William James Copy Share Image
There has been lots of things said about me over the years. I am happy to comment on people's opinion in football… — Roy Keane Copy Share Image
“Power rules the world, not opinion, but it is opinion that exploits power. It is power that makes opinion. To be easygoing… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . .… — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It seems that every practitioner of physics has had to wonder at some point why mathematics and physics have come to be… — Etienne Klein Copy Share Image
I lived in the house with my mother so she had no choice but to hear what I was doing. I would… — D'Angelo Copy Share Image
Looking at polls of Arab public opinion, you look at popular figures, the most popular figure is the prime minister of Turkey,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution . but we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think as a woman, the more you embrace who you are, and your own opinions, and how you feel, and the… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
I'm sure everyone feels this way, but it's hard to have a proper opinion of yourself or how things are or how… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
If we put another two or perhaps three justice on, that's really what's going to be that will happen. And that'll… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
As for the petty little world of journalism, the media demonstrates how it, more than anyone, is careful to traffic only in… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image