The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.

Anita Roddick

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

Eric Bana

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.

Mark Twain

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. Conversation in a dorm room quoted in Language in Thought and Action,

S. I. Hayakawa

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou

I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

Jean Rhys

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

Joel Grey

Political Correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

Glenn Beck

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Ralph Waldo Emerson