What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
If I have caught myself struggling to remember, it was, if not a pretense, at least premature, in that I only ever… — Jeanloup Sieff Copy Share Image
Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I do think that Republicans are flirting with their tax cut, which has always been the narcotic of Republicans, that they in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
You have yearned to have my affection cloak your delicate spirit, accept the pretense of my craving to consume your soul as… — Philip the Apostle Copy Share Image
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if… — Patrick Cleburne Copy Share Image
We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that… — Lillie Devereux Blake Copy Share Image
We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
