Character Quote by Robert Hooke

One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

— Bruno Schulz

People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are…

— Zephyr Teachout

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

— John Ralston Saul

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a…

— Peter Drucker

Hmmm! certain words have no definitions for them like politics and it is so cause people don't want to waste their time in defining…

— Sardar Hyder Abbas

Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain to politics-…

— Michael Wolff

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the…

— Zephyr Teachout

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted…

— Alberto Manguel

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be…

— Frederick Lenz

“In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,”

— Gerard K. O'Neill

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a…

— Murray Bookchin

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

— Noam Chomsky