Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I would not be like those Authors, who forgive themselves some particular lines for the sake of a whole Poem, and vice… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard. — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Is America becoming decadent? Do we no longer regard our promises and pledges as sacred? ... We promised to make peace with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image