Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I see a person wearing a fur coat, I see not only the coat but the animals who were cruelly abused,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Occasional observers of horror movies have a nasty habit of asking why it is that there is always some poor misguided soul… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether… — Regine Chassagne Copy Share Image
Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Not many of us will be leaders; and even those who are leaders must also be followers much of the time. This… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We were like the Beatles, Dad.' 'I know you think that, sweetie' 'Seriously. Mom is John, you're Paul, I'm George, and Ice… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
While this is not a part of what Martin Shkreli's being indicted for, there is sort of the overall picture of somebody… — Joy-Ann Reid Copy Share Image
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The noble science of Geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth with its embedded… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
