Official Quotes
431 Official quotes by 384 unique authors
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The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room…
— Fernand Leger
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In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the community’s defence…
— Alan Keyes
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In fact, five years ago, after Saddam ejected the UN inspectors, John McCain and I gave up on containment and introduced the Iraqi Liberation Act,…
— Joe Lieberman
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In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State…
— Paul Gauguin
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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.
— Paul Signac
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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
— Grover Cleveland
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The Official Bulletin declared that the Poles should be as proud of me as the Germans are of Mozart; obvious nonsense.
— Frederic Chopin
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The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade…
— Milton Friedman
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...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
— Hans F. Sennholz
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of…
— N. T. Wright
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And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced…
— Christopher Dawson
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When we hear (as we sometimes do) that (Russia's) economic output is about half the level of a decade ago or that real incomes have…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This…
— Germaine Greer
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The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams…
— George Jung
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A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and responses to it.…
— Thomas R. Pickering
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because…
— William Blum
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Hitler did not have Mussolinis revolutionary socialist background. . . . Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the bourgeoisie and capitalism and…
— Richard Pipes
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I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she…
— Natalie Coughlin
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That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting…
— Tariq Ali
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Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a…
— Koichi Tanaka
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I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary…
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
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I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they…
— Anatoly Chubais
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If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power,…
— Ben Moreell
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So after a long time of utilizing the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood, the focus was basically turned…
— Naji Sabri
Who Wrote These Official Quotes
384 authors contributed a total of 431 Official Quotes, led by these top contributors: