By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
What joins the Americans one to another is not a common ancestry, language or race, but a shared work of the imagination… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work.… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the… — James Alison Copy Share Image
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The constitutional right of free expression... is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
When we enter into any relationship with the premise that we are empty and the other person will fill us in, we… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Economic history is a never-ending series of episodes based on falsehoods and lies, not truths. It represents the path to big money.… — George Soros Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler 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
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I… — R. Lee Wrights Copy Share Image
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
