Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
“But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I think it's very sad that CNN leads Jeb Bush, down a road by starting off virtually all the questions, "Mr. Trump… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their… — Colin Jordan Copy Share Image
With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget… — Knute Nelson Copy Share Image
The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
You have to have a government to provide you with legal order, with stability, enforcement of property rights, enforcement of contracts, definition… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Word is sort of spreading by itself, largely among young people. And if word gets out that young people can actually come… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader,… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to… — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
