“Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For he who quells disorder by a very few signal examples will in the end be more merciful than he who from… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Some people awake each morning dreading the day looking for the negatives in their lives and in others, while some awaken fresh… — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In a world grown dark with deceit there there are many who are blinded and few who can hold up a light… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“What may be called linear thinking goes straight out from one pole or from one idea of the cosmos of ideas, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To read these books, in this way, as an exercise in self-knowledge, carries certain risks. Risks that are both personal and political.… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ...… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image