The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger, Ev'ry Time We Say G

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

Eminem

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

Charles Horton Cooley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moli

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism...and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.

Margaret Thatcher

Each man lives in many worlds within different life.Mind can only see world in which it lived and located.

Toba Beta

You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form.

Colin Farrell

With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.

Walter Lang