Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David ThoreauPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganThe U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘
Noam ChomskyDissents speak to a future age.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe economy’s always been the engine for our national security.
Jim MattisI think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham LincolnAll art is quite useless.
Oscar WildeStates are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
PlatoWe never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William JamesCunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PlatoLook at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
Dalai LamaThe good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar WildeIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
Noam ChomskyThe ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.
Noam ChomskyViolence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac AsimovTime, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
VoltaireI have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
Edgar Allan PoeOur lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C. ClarkeThe story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Margaret AtwoodFor my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillWit is the epitaph of an emotion.
Friedrich NietzscheTyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz KafkaThere is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePerhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus AureliusA true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph AddisonIt’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliPolitics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry AdamsIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston ChurchillCobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Babe RuthI think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher HitchensPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PlatoCertainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
Jane GoodallWhen the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
Alexander HamiltonYou know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
Jerry SeinfeldPhilosophy is common sense with big words.
James MadisonTruth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhat do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma GandhiWhite people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.
Muhammad AliIn our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
George OrwellBiographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark TwainSome people are making music just for numbers and views.
Bad BunnyOh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.
Abraham LincolnA public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren BuffettThe wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin DisraeliExperts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin PowellIndustry need not wish.
Benjamin FranklinWe have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
Charles SpurgeonLet not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma GandhiRomcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.
Matthew McConaugheyPop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
Brian EnoThe most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
Thomas JeffersonEver since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas AdamsIn the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
Stephen CoveyHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireThe American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry KissingerAmong the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham LincolnIt’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
BonoEvery philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand RussellThe superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
Henry Kissinger