The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

John Shelton Reed

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Lao Tzu

How empty is theory in the presence of fact

Mark Twain

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Natalie du Toit

Everything we could possibly want or need is there for the taking, but we are blinded by fears of lack and limitation, and we have bought the lie that resources are limited, so we must therefore compete for the few that are left.

Stephen Richards

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Erica Jong

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

Marshall McLuhan

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Albert Camus

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

Danica McKellar

Lead with your own participation in a way that you believe will create value and will invite others to do the same.

Suzanne Mayo Frindt