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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of… — Karl Marx
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution,… — Karl Marx
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… — Hannah Arendt
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. — Euripides
It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred. — Euripides
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as… — Pindar
Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to… — Thucydides
If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in… — Thucydides
When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see… — Unknown Author
That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love… — Unknown Author
We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity… — Ralph Ellison
No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart… — John F. Kennedy
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy… — John F. Kennedy
We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I… — George McGovern
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the… — Charles Babbage
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which… — Unknown Author
Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves. — Rush Limbaugh
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed,… — Bridget Riley
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He… — Willem de Kooning
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it. — Leonardo da Vinci
Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any… — Leonardo da Vinci
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. — Morrie Schwartz
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this… — Sandra Day O'Connor

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