Quotes of: Thomas-edison Keyword

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

George Washington's Farewell Address

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

God Is Love--Deus Caritas Est: Encyclical Letter

The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given.

God Is Love--Deus Caritas Est: Encyclical Letter

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides w...

Gender Trouble

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out t...

Gender Trouble

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday

Politicians would only move beyond gestures once there was a critical mass of informed citizens.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

—Conociéndonos —repitió Max, como si estuviera sopesando sus palabras—.¿Y vas a dejarme entrar, Sophie? —Sí. —Algo muy dentro de ella se removió, algo a un mismo tiempo oscuro... y solitario. Infinita y absolutamente solitario—. Qué...

Bonds of Justice

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

The Bandit Queen of India: An Indian Woman's Amazing Journey from Peasant to International Legend

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.

Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life

Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

Brother Odd

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.

Brother Odd

No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.

Baby Proof

I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.

Baby Proof