Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Andy Warhol
Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that
To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the assumption that this is a mild and decent believer who does not open the bidding by telling you that your unbelief will endanger your soul and condemn you to hell. It will not be long until you are politely asked how you can possibly know right from wrong. Without holy awe, what is to prevent you form resorting to theft, murder, rape, and perjury? It will sometimes be conceded that non-believers have led ethical lives, and it will also be conceded (as it had better be) that many believers have been responsible for terrible crimes. Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea!
Christopher Hitchens
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.
Albert Camus
I am a deeply superficial person.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Kahlil Gibran
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire
There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.
Diablo Cody
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.
Leo Tolstoy
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything.
PRECOGNITION, TELEPATHY, BULLSHIT! EAT MY DONG, YOU EXTRASENSORY TURKEY!
Stephen King
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warner
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
Audre Lorde
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
Vincent Bugliosi
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.
Michelle Malkin
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for it.
Earl Warren
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace
Cassandra Clare
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield
I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believe in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.
John Green
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
Aziz Ansari
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
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