I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow… — George Will Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm on social media a lot. It kind of revises or revives your career. Because of social media I get pictures and… — Frank Stallone Copy Share Image
Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse… — Deborah Lupton Copy Share Image
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that… — E. O. Wilson 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
The tale of the Monkey Girl gave me wat I needed most at a critical time in my life: the image of… — Midori Snyder Copy Share Image
There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after… — Henry Hazlitt 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
Human beings need community. If there are no communities available for constructive ends, there will be destructive, murderous communities... Only the social… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There are amazing designers like Riccardo Tisci (whom I consider like my godfather in the industry), who are aware that beauty isn't… — Maria Borges Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and… — Kerry Packer Copy Share Image
Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict,… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image