People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards excellence are not directed through any form of innovation; rather, the enhancement of status oc...
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fun...
[I]t is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or of any number of men, at the entering into society to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights, when the grand end of civil government, from ...
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational attitude which springs from intoxication with dreams of a beautiful world is what I call Romanticism. It may se...
There is perhaps some hope to be derived from the fact that in most instances where an attempt to realize an ideal society gave birth to the ugliness and violence of a prolonged active mass movement the experiment was made on a vast scale and with a ...
Seth Brundle: [to Veronica] You're afraid to dive into the plasma pool, aren't you? You're afraid to be destroyed and recreated, aren't you? I'll bet you think that you woke me up about the flesh, don't you? But you only know society's straight line ...
210Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine soci...
Great leaders are teachable leaders.
Spring time is a season of great hope and strength.
There's an audience for all kinds of great art.
God is the Creator of all dreams.
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.
Learn with great passion. Learn with great enthusiasm.
Food is a great way of communicating.
Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
And I'm working with all these great people at Sony Publishing.
