We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Marcel Proust

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

Tim Pawlenty

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Jean Rostand

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Luigi Russolo

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Christopher Lasch

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

George Bernard Shaw