The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like,… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If the people of God were to transform the world through fascination, these amazing teachings had to work at the center of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This",… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They… — E. T. A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
You've got a number of things that take place that are peculiar to still photography. One: how a picture looks - what… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The question for me is not are we political, but how are we political? We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
In studying the action of the Analytical Engine, we find that the peculiar and independent nature of the considerations which in all… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who… — Miguel Serrano Copy Share Image
