Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Edward Gibbon

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Frederic Bastiat

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

Bertrand Russell

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Billy West

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Camille Paglia

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Camille Paglia

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

Carl Jung

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Bernard Malamud

Politics isn't in my nature.

Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Walter Savage Landor

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Al Sharpton

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Edmond Rostand

To offend is my pleasure; I love to be hated.

Bess Myerson

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Charlaine Harris

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Charles Hodge

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Carl Jung

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

Edward Kennedy

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

Barbara Tuchman

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.