It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
We know that U.S. voters, and world leaders, allow Obama extraordinary leeway when it comes to deadly drone strikes, precisely because of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Precisely because I'm a man who is attracted to women, there may be some things that I have to say as a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in… — Tommy Franks Copy Share Image
This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I try to ask visual questions. I'll ask what someone was wearing, if that seems relevant. If possible, I'll walk over the… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what… — K'naan Copy Share Image
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling… — Sunni Brown Copy Share Image
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
