I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. .… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The deterioration of symbols is natural. They wear out, needing to be reclaimed, recreated; returned to the spirit. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
There are names like Savoy Hotel, Caruso, Shangri-La, Pavlove, Mount Everest and the Treorchy Male Choir that just hang up there as… — Ron Moody Copy Share Image
“They were in love! Carla wore her hair up and Andrew saw everything as a sign. They spent an entire afternoon sitting… — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
All our lives are symbols. Everything we do is part of a pattern we have at least some say in. The strong… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a science of symbols, in which, by their proper study, a search is instituted after truth, that truth consisting in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
