Sam Harris Quotes
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
Quotes to Explore
-
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
-
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
-
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
-
I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
-
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
-
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
-
I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
-
I'm an artist at heart.
-
At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
-
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
-
I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
-
There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
-
The real job is not to understand foreign culture but to understand our own.
-
The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.
-
Only indiscriminate love can make us free.
-
Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.
-
Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.
-
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
