If a thousand were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

Johann von Goethe

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Rex Steven Sikes

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

T. Boone Pickens

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Sam Walton

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

William J. Clinton

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

Aldous Huxley

I am a believer in punctuality though is makes me very lonely.

E. V. Verrall

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

Amanda Howells

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

Sienna Miller

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Desiderius Erasmus