If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.

Ivern Ball

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Henry David Thoreau

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Thomas Huxley

Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.

George Canning

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Michelle Bachelet

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

H. G. Wells

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

I want a family someday and I know that I have to let love in to create that and I think there is someone out there for me, but I'm not on some crazy hunt for that right now.

Leighton Meester

When I was born the doctor turned me upside down and said, my god twins

Rodney Dangerfield

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Immanuel Kant