The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Kong Qiu, or Master Kong as he was known, did not live to see his days of glory. During his lifetime, his… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
You will never go wrong in concluding that a man has once loved deeply whatever he hates, and loves it yet; that… — Georg Groddeck Copy Share Image
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered… — Howard Adelman Copy Share Image
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have nothing but scorn for the notion of an Islamic bomb. There is no such thing as an Islamic bomb or… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile Copy Share Image
The Statist deflects public scorn for the consequences of his own central planning by blaming the very industry he is sabotaging for… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
