We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer… — Sarada Devi Copy Share Image
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Complaints about the social irresponsibility of the intellectual typically concern the intellectual's tendency to marginalize herself, to move out from one community… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married there's a tendency to run away when things get tough. There… — Jerry Stiller Copy Share Image
Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way… — Benjamin Bratt Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
