Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario,… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There… — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
“To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to… — David Galula Copy Share Image
...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same.… — Sam Lamott Copy Share Image
Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Crimes are being committed 24/7, 365 days a year. My show aired one hour a day, and then a repeat at 2… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
It was shameful that, after Haiti, Colombia was the second most unequal country in Latin America. But we've achieved some things; the… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Married women vote Republican; single women vote Democratic. That's why liberals promote policies to break up families. Every social malady is a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something? --Z P.S. That is,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The child is born with a Self but not with an ego. The child develops the ego. As he becomes more and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Left-wing social policies sicken our behavior and corrupt our culture. People bend principles and sacrifice integrity to get as much as they… — James Cook Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image