Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Mike Reagan

The event is good way to get students to register to vote. I think it helps with democracy more than anything. It's a good way to get a lot of student support.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Larry Long

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Tariq Khan

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

Bill Rosendahl

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

Archibald MacLeish

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

A. J. P. Taylor

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Lauren Beukes

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

Leo Tolstoy

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

Peter Kreeft

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

Phil Donahue

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

Peter Sellers

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

Pierre Trudeau

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.