The wisdom of the masses is not always wise. You could put a lot of things to a vote-you could have put… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A real woman understands that man was created to be the initiator, and she operates on that premise. This is primarily a… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings… — Arthur M. Wellington Copy Share Image
There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
The Never Trumpers, they have never been guided by or governed by the premise that Hillary Clinton needs to lose. If they… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Agnes could not count on the fingers of one hand the times she had entered the Blanchards' business premises. Usually she had… — Janet Gleeson 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
To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs… — Ricardo Semler Copy Share Image
...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
A basic is an introduction. A fundamental is a foundation. A fundamental is a premise, idea, or fact that an entire system… — Marc MacYoung Copy Share Image
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Poststructuralism. . . . is a form of literary criticism that uses elaborate wordplay to prove its central premise, that all language… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
“Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between theory and methodology, the latter being the practical deployment of a premise. Theory on the contrary may… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is all about keeping her [Hillary Clinton] and her husband [Bill Clinton] as far away from the levers of power as… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race -… — Peter Schwartz Copy Share Image
If a person realized that everything people call happiness, love and joy was just a miscalculation based on a false premise, he'd… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
You notice that the Democrats are totally unified. I mean, you know they're dragging Algore back out? Algore is being dragged out… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I have to say in premise 'Winter Journal' is really not a memoir. And I don't even think of it as an… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image