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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

Kingman Brewster, Jr: If I take...

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious.

Source: In The...

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Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and...

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Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

Konrad Adenauer: History is the...

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Source: In...

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Henry David Thoreau: How vain it...

Henry David Thoreau: How vain it...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Source: In...

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Kelly Miller: All great people...

Kelly Miller: All great people...

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized...

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Max Eastman: The defining function...

Max Eastman: The defining function...

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Source: In Correct...

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Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing...

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Franz Kafka: It is not...

Franz Kafka: It is not...

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not...

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Max Frisch: The difference between...

Max Frisch: The difference between...

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's...

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Adolf Hitler: The broad mass...

Adolf Hitler: The broad mass...

The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small...

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Joseph Goebbels: Whoever can conquer...

Joseph Goebbels: Whoever can conquer...

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any...

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Benito Mussolini: I should be...

Benito Mussolini: I should be...

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

When Harvard men say they've graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Source:...

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Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

Wilkie Collins: I am (thank...

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Source: In The Forbes Book of...

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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

Henry Brooks Adams: American society is...

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is...

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Theodore H White: It was like...

Theodore H White: It was like...

It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting...

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Theodore H White: With electricity we...

Theodore H White: With electricity we...

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a crystal set [and] with enough...

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Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

Jacob Bronowski: The world is...

The world is made of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower...

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