Accepted Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation.…

— Edward Gibbon

All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained,…

— Charles Brockden Brown

Each time you live through a controversy you strengthen.

— Pierre Poilievre

“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition to misinterpret…

— Thomas Paine

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to…

— Emma Goldman

In a living civilization there is always an element of unrest, for sensitiveness to ideas means curiosity, adventure, change. Civilized order survives on its…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The society with lots of open disagreement and social conflict is the one surging with power in art, science, commerce, constructive social reform, and…

— Greg Forster

“In m second year I attended a public debate on a theme that interested me, though not by its novelty: does life mainly evolve…

— Alasdair Gray

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

— William Safire

“The Sunday Tidings, which had for some years been pursing a policy of intellectual sensationalism, had never found it easy to maintain its supply…

— John Wyndham

“We are men, all subject to errors. Our opinions are not in our power. They are formed and governed much by circumstances that are…

— Davidson Butler

In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with…

— Thomas Paine