Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I might have meant "terrify us" but perhaps as well there was a less than conscious effort to show… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
There were some types of sanctions that happen in the public world that made my work acceptable, where someone looks at the… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard… — John Marshall Harlan II Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Tough sanctions would mean saying to BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, Boeing and Siemens that they can't do business in Russia. — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Sir, no nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think wherever we can cooperate with Russia, that's fine. And I did as secretary of state. That's how we got a… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
After using the 'good offices' of UN diplomacy (economic sanctions and weapons inspections) to ensure that Iraq was brought to its knees,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers'… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump dismantles the agreement [the "Iran nuclear deal"] won by President Barack Obama with President Hassan Rouhani and the Iranian… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image