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A diplomatic language has a hundred ways of saying nothing but no way of saying something.
— Will Rogers (1879-1935) American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor.
There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true.
— Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-executed 1927) Italian-American fish peddler, anarchist; found on a prison tablet after his execution
If there were more extremists in evolutionary periods, there would be no revolutionary periods.
— Benjamin R. Tucker (1854-1939) American philosophical anarchist
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
— Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian writer
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator — our very self-consciousness — is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution….
— Annie Dillard (1945- ) Pulitzer Prize-winning American author
If the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamn wars in the first place.
— Sally Field (1946- ) actress and winner of two Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
— Ashley Montagu (1905-1999), American anthropologist, biologist
There are three sources of the moral and political principles which govern mankind, namely, revelation, natural law and social convention…. There are, then, three distinct kinds of virtue and vice — the religious, the natural and the political.
— Cesare Bonesana (1735-1794) Italian economist, penologist
Historical consciousness is in no way separate from self-consciousness. The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.
— Arlene Raven (1944-2006) art historian, author, writer, editor, critic, lecturer, art curator, feminist
The American Government is premised on the theory that if the mind of man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy must be placed beyond the reach of government.
— William O. Douglas (1898-1980) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
