The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Black history is American history.

Morgan Freeman

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

John Ruskin

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

E. M. Cioran

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act.

Claude A. Helvetius

All animals are equalBut some animals are more equal than others

George Orwell

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I've made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

Tom Hanks

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only

Thomas Carlyle

My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1947

I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John von Neumann