Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation's hoop I thrust it in the earth. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way -… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
"Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come. — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate. — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I have long held firm to my suspicion that some people are just evil. In some cases I'll concede it seems as… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
