3 December 2020 Peter L. Berger Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there’s no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.
3 December 2020 Ehud Olmert I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
3 December 2020 William Shakespeare All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
3 December 2020 Alfred de Vigny Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
3 December 2020 Jon Johansen Companies shouldn’t use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
3 December 2020 Gayle King How do I love Tim McGraw? Let me count the ways: I love that he’s a country boy with a city sensibility. I love that he refuses to be pegged, and his duet with Nelly proves it. And I really love that he had the brains to marry Faith Hill.
3 December 2020 Hope Davis But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.
3 December 2020 Walt Whitman I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
3 December 2020 Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I’m beginning to believe it.
3 December 2020 Andrew Motion More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
3 December 2020 Anacreon Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
3 December 2020 Julie Christie As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I’m not going to say what they were.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Blackwell I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle People go to the movies to watch a film and all they’re thinking about is the actress’s cellulite they saw in a magazine.
3 December 2020 Luc de Clapiers You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
