It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself,… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
In prison, the gloves were off, the comforting rhetoric and rationalization were absent. To use a phrase from Plato, I saw the… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella'… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules," I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window.… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we? — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“You must not allow the hurt of the past to haunt or hinder you from fulfilling and performing your duties as one… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Free speech underpins our democratic society and our universities have a long and proud history of being places where students and academics… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
Those who genuinely want to change the world for betterment must know that transforming our own lives at the most fundamental level… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life.” — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you… — Jerome Flynn Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
