To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

Aristotle

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Jodi Picoult

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

James Hansen

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Marcus Garvey

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

Iain Duncan Smith

I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities, or wandering through Paradises and Hells of visions into which I rushed, carrying your image in my arms, I loved you madly.

Charles Dickens

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.

Bible

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

Ryan White

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

Vivien Leigh

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende