You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. – Edmund Hillary

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. – Alfred Hitchcock

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. – Jane Howard

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. – Thomas H. Huxley

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas H. Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. – Thomas H. Huxley

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. – Carl G. Jung

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering

I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist. – Jerome Lejeune

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. – Jay Leno

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research. – Wilson Mizner

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease. – Ashley Montagu

A satellite has no conscience. – Edward R. Murrow

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. – Howard Nemerov

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. – John von Neumann

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! – Eugene O’Neill

Whenever anyone says, ‘theoretically,’ they really mean, ‘not really.’ – Dave Parnas

That theory is worthless. It isn’t even wrong! – Wolfgang Pauli

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. – Linus Pauling

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. – Alan Perlis

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. – Charles Pierce

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. – Max Planck

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’ – Max Planck

For NASA, space is still a high priority. – Dan Quayle

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. – Wilhelm Reich

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. – Jean Rostand

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. – Mark Russell

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. – Carl Sagan

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. – George Santayana

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. – Arthur M. Schlesinger

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine. – Richard Selzer

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. – George Bernard Shaw

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. – Adam Smith

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – Adam Smith

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. – Gertrude Stein

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. – Edward Teller

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. – Edward Teller

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas

The uniformity of earth’s life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. – Lewis Thomas

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. – Lewis Thomas

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. – Alvin Toffler

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. – Paul Valery

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. – Hugh Walpole

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. – James D. Watson

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. – E. B. White

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry B. Adams

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. – Leon Battista Alberti

The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God’s will. – David Allman

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway. – Mary Kay Ash

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. – Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’ – Isaac Asimov

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. – W. H. Auden

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aurelius

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. – Francis Bacon

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost. – Russell Baker

There was no “before” the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. – John D. Barrow

Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true. – Niels Bohr

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for. – James H. Boren

Touch a scientist and you touch a child. – Ray Bradbury

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. – Ray Bradbury

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – William Bragg

There are no shortcuts in evolution. – Louis D. Brandeis

Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing. – Wernher von Braun

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. – Wernher von Braun

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity. – Wernher von Braun

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. – Wernher von Braun

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “How?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “Why?” – Erwin Chargaff

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

Like the furtive collectors of stolen art, cell biologists are forced to be lonely admirers of spectacular architecture, exquisite symmetry, dramas of violence and death, mobility, self-sacrifice and, yes, rococo sex. – Lorraine Lee Cudmore

Cells let us walk, talk, think, make love and realize the bath water is cold. – Lorraine Lee Cudmore

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. – George William Curtis

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey

The facts of the present won’t sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. – Macneile Dixon

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. – Albert Einstein

Science does not know its debt to imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. – Sam Ervin

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Martin Henry Fischer

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. – Adrian Forsyth

It’s going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us. – Newt Gingrich

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. – Arnold H. Glasow

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould

In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. – Stephen Jay Gould

The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe’s cloisters to Washington’s high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable – not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market. – Daniel S. Greenberg

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go. – Tom Hanks

Leave the atom alone. – E. Y. Harburg

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

Page topic: Good quotes about Science: Some of the best great quotes about Science

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. – Helen Keller

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window. – Stephen King

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. – Louis Kronenberger

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. – Anne Lamott

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. – C. S. Lewis

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. – C. S. Lewis

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. – Bill Maher

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k’s because three would be too obvious. – Bill Maher

We must respect the other fellow’s religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. – H. L. Mencken

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. – H. L. Mencken

Born again?! No, I’m not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time. – Dennis Miller

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. – Blaise Pascal

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. – Stephen Roberts

The Bible is literature, not dogma. – George Santayana

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. – Frank Sinatra

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said “No.” – Margaret Smith

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. – Paul Tournier

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Desmond Tutu

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. – Paul Valery

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. – Marianne Williamson

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He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife. – Douglas Adams

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? – Douglas Adams

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. – Isaac Asimov

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. – Henry Ward Beecher

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. – Lenny Bruce

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. – Richard Burton

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is. – Albert Camus

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her. – Arthur C. Clarke

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. – Charles Caleb Colton

Eskimo: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” Priest: “No, not if you did not know.” Eskimo: “Then why did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Douglass

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God. – Albert Einstein

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side – the ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ – are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. – Galileo Galilei

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mohandas Gandhi

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning. – Bill Gates

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. – Kahlil Gibran

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. – Kahlil Gibran

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. – Kahlil Gibran

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. – Frederick the Great

If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. – Judith Hayes

The biblical account of Noah’s Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? – Judith Hayes

One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. – Robert A. Heinlein

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. – Robert A. Heinlein

We are punished by our sins, not for them. – Elbert Hubbard

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. – Robert Green Ingersoll

Page topic: Good quotes about Religion: Some of the best great quotes about Religion

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. – John Quincy Adams

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. – Henry B. Adams

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb. – Spiro T. Agnew

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. – Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act! – Dante Alighieri

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. – Richard Armour

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. – Isaac Asimov

Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. – Russell Baker

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy. – Roger Baldwin

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. – Marion Barry

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. – Bernard Baruch

The accursed power which stands on Privilege (And goes with Women, and Champagne, and Bridge) Broke – and Democracy resumed her reign: (Which goes with Bridge, and Women and Champagne). – Hilaire Belloc

Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. – Saul Bellow

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. – Leonard Bernstein

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied. – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. – Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. – Ambrose Bierce

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Standing, standing, standing – why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington. – Daniel J. Boorstin

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. – Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. – Daniel J. Boorstin

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn’t do anywhere else. – Tom Bradley

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. – Louis D. Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. – Louis D. Brandeis

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. – Edmund Burke

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. – Jimmy Carter

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. – Fidel Castro

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. – Fidel Castro

Television is democracy at its ugliest. – Paddy Chayefsky

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face. – Jacques Chirac

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. – Winston Churchill

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure. – Frank A. Clark

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power. – Arthur C. Clarke

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking ‘Do you want fries with that?’ – John Cleese

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. – Grover Cleveland

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving. – Robertson Davies

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian. – John G. Diefenbaker

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. – John G. Diefenbaker

A billion here and a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money. – Everett Dirksen

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. – William O. Douglas

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. – John Foster Dulles

Beguiled by George S. Bush’s easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn’t choosing a president, it’s casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency. – Roger Ebert

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. – T. S. Eliot

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words. – Esther B. Fein

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer. – Geraldine A. Ferraro

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. – W. C. Fields

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. – Milton Friedman

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. – Erich Fromm

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. – James William Fulbright

Truth is a tendency. – R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value. – R. Buckminster Fuller

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. – R. Buckminster Fuller

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. – John Kenneth Galbraith

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. – Mohandas Gandhi

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John W. Gardner

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John W. Gardner

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. – Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. – Charles de Gaulle

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters? – Kahlil Gibran

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. – Kahlil Gibran

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. – William Gilbert

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. – Newt Gingrich

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. – William E. Gladstone

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. – Arnold H. Glasow

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. – Emma Goldman

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action. – Emma Goldman

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. – Meg Greenfield

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport. – Dick Gregory

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. – Martin L. Gross

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

Politics, n: Poly “many” + tics “blood-sucking parasites” – Larry Hardiman

There is always some fig leaf being used. – Gary Hart

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. – Gary Hart

What luck for rulers, that men do not think. – Adolf Hitler

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. – Thomas Hobbes

Justice is incidental to law and order. – J. Edgar Hoover

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. – Herbert Hoover

We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don’t clear anybody. We don’t condemn anybody. – J. Edgar Hoover

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. – Kin Hubbard

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. – Pope John Paul II

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised. – Jesse Jackson

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. – Thomas Jefferson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. – Thomas Jefferson

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. – Lady Bird Johnson

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time. – Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren’t witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. – Charles McC Mathias, Jr.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight. – John F. Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. – Robert Kennedy

Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. – Edward Kennedy

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. – Nikita Khrushchev

I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. – Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. – Henry A. Kissinger

If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents. – Edward Koch

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. – Edward Koch

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows. – Edward Koch

The art of creation is older than the art of killing. – Edward Koch

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. – Charles Krauthammer

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. – Doug Larson

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. – Oscar Levant

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – A. J. Liebling

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. – Clare Boothe Luce

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. – Clare Boothe Luce

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. – Neal Barnard, M.D.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas B. Macaulay

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. – George MacDonald

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of “Ungentlemanly,” “Not fair” and all the rest. – Harold MacMillan

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. – Nelson Mandela

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. – Imelda Marcos

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. – Eli Khamarov

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. – Alfred de Musset

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. – Novalis

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. – Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out. – Richard Rosen

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. – George Sand

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. – Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. – Carl Sandburg

I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself. – Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. – Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. – Charles Simic

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. – Wallace Stevens

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick… You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. – Dylan Thomas

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. – Paul Valery

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, “Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.” – Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man’s capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. – Robert Penn Warren

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. – E. B. White

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. – Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. – Oscar Wilde

A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. – Russell Baker

Always be a poet, even in prose. – Charles Baudelaire

God is the perfect poet. – Robert Browning

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. – Rene Char

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

The poet doesn’t invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. – Jean Cocteau

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. – Leonard Cohen

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. – Samuel McChord Crothers

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T. S. Eliot

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T. S. Eliot

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. – Paul Engle

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E. M. Forster

Poetry is what gets lost in translation. – Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. – Robert Frost

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. – Dennis Gabor

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. – Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Kahlil Gibran

“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – Andre Gide

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. – Robert Graves

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. – William Hazlitt

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers. – Horace

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out… Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. – A. E. Housman

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert

Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. – Andre Gide

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. – Dag Hammarskjold

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. – John Andrew Holmes

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. – Thomas Jefferson

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. – John F. Kennedy

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. – H. L. Mencken

Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. – Ovid

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. – Eleanor Roosevelt

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile. – Mother Teresa

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. – Muhammad Ali

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. – Napoleon Bonaparte

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. – David Borenstein

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. – Vera Brittain

I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war. – Georges Clemenceau

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t have to have fought in a war to love peace. – Geraldine A. Ferraro

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations’s professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. – Oscar W. Firkins

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. – Benjamin Franklin

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. – Benjamin Franklin

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mohandas Gandhi

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Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. – Richard Aldington

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James A. Baldwin

The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? – Pablo Casals

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. – Arthur C. Clarke

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America. – William J. Clinton

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country. – Calvin Coolidge

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. – George William Curtis

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. – Eugene V. Debs

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. – Diogenes

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism – how passionately I hate them! – Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. – Albert Einstein

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. – Nathan Hale

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours. – William R. Inge

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