Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I know this sounds weird, but getting hurt was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It really gave… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
As far as France is concerned, we are ready to envisage everything that can be done under UNSCR 1441. [...] But I… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Hendrix was back there with a few of the others who were like my training wheels ... hearing him as a teenager… — Junior Brown Copy Share Image
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable. PETA is trying to get your attention, and they're successful… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I am interested in politics but have stayed away from writing overtly political songs, or message songs, because I find it difficult… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In a way, human beings have never been part of the natural order; we're not biological in the normal sense. Normal biological… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
By all means give vent to your anger, let it out in nondestructive ways--if you are still deciding to have it. But… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I think festivals are way more easygoing than back-to-back tours are. 'Cause for me, when you get to go to a festival,… — Zella Day Copy Share Image
I think it's not an easy task because there's not enough Latino writers that are being given opportunities to write things -… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for… — Mark Walden Copy Share Image
When Russell was out, you stepped your game up for me, for the team. There were nights where you made me look… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, ‘I worked really, really hard in my 20s.’ And… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
A few really dedicated people can offset the masses of out of harmony people, so we who work for peace must not… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I think that is one of the first things that I got clear in my mind when I began to play around… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image