It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Socially, in most groups I tempered my conversations on my approach to health because those who entrusted their lives to allopathic, 'standard… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
When I went to school, there were no Black philosophers, at least none that I was aware of, who were recognized by… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I first saw 'The Dinner Party' in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
You've gotta understand: in July of '44, the Allies were still contained on the peninsula in western France and the destruction of… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She looked up and their eyes locked. “Want to be my birthday present?” she asked in a breathy whisper. Chase’s mother didn’t… — Tamara Hoffa Copy Share Image
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to do a Western. And trying to think of what that would be, I always figured that… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
That is why Russia is hated. That is why China is hated. They are forming a tremendous, final defense line protecting humanity… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
