The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
- Paul Strand - In Art
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Bertrand Russell - In Equality
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
- Randolph Bourne - In Experience
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In Government
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In History
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In History
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
- Francois Mitterrand - In History
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The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
- Joel Hildebrand - In Intelligence
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell - In Love
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell - In Nature
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell - In Patriotism
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In Politics
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In Politics
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
- Louis D. Brandeis - In Science
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
- Randolph Bourne - In Society
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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
- Ayn Rand - In Success
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Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers.
- Leonard Brandwein - In Technology
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Bertrand Russell - In War
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Bertrand Russell - In War
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell - In Words to the Wise
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