Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Zinn

One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not necessarily call themselves anarchists.

Howard Zinn

No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

Howard Zinn

That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to try to encompass the citizenry in the same box as the government is in. To say, "We're all in this together. It threatens all of us."

Howard Hughes

Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Howard Hodgkin

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

Hannah Arendt

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

He's trying to identify quality people and people who have won. He got it (leadership) in a package with those two.

Benjamin Franklin

He that idly loses 5 s. worth of time, loses 5 s. & might as prudently throw 5 s. in the River.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

George Berkeley

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

George Berkeley

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

George Berkeley

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

George Bernard Shaw

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Gary Larson

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Fredric Jameson

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

Fredrik Bajer

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Freeman Dyson

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

Freeman Dyson

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Fred Brooks

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

Erich Maria Remarque

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

Erich Maria Remarque

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

Steve Alford

Bru has meant a lot to us in a lot of ways, not just on the floor. He's been a phenomenal student for us. He's ideal for what we like in all our players.

Even if you appoint someone who is identical to Rehnquist in every respect, you're talking about someone who is about 50 rather than 80.

Even if the identities of the others in the morgue were made public, there is no possibility of us knowing how they died.

Tom DeLay

Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a village idiot to raise taxes on working families.

Southern Idaho is where the problem is this year.

The more ideas that pop, the more open to new ideas the American market is.

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.