The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs,… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have… — Roland H. Hartley Copy Share Image
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married. — Burt Lancaster Copy Share Image
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
“Besides, aren't you dying to see our bedroom?" "Dying," said Lucy, going up the oak staircase with a stout, determined heart.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen! — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What is needed is a move beyond tradition, nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
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