Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Shih

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

George Santayana

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

Gail Shearer

Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.

Charles de Lint

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

Barbara Smith

There is a lot of confusion right now, and this just makes it worse.

Bill Rucker

There is no doubt confusion played a role in the first day.

Byron Katie

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Eric Walters

At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged characters. He understood the passion, the confusion and drama that marks that life stage.

Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

Brian Molko

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

Carole Bouquet

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Carlos Mencia

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

Carl Bernstein

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

Carl Andre

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.

C. S. Lewis

The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Susan B. Anthony

I have many things to say. My every right, constitutional, civil, political and judicial has been tramped upon. I have not only had no jury of my peers, but I have had no jury at all.