Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Herman Melville

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Henry Rollins

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

Huston Smith

Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.

Huston Smith

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Jean Baudrillard

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Democritus

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

Dada Vaswani

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Emil Cioran

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Emile Durkheim

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Erich Fromm

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Erich Fromm

The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.

Erich Fromm

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

bell hooks