The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

Carl Levin

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

Azar Nafisi

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

Henry David Thoreau

In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

William Feather

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

John Heywood

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

Source Unknown

At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.

William Blake

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Mayim Bialik