John Fiske Quotes
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
John Fiske
Quotes to Explore
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
H. R. McMaster
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
Ralph Merkle
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana Ali
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
F. W. de Klerk
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
Jack Vance
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
Ben Harper
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
Garry Winogrand
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
J. C. Ryle
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Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
F. F. Bosworth
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
Napoleon Hill
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
Paul Strand
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
William Hazlitt
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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
George Bernard Shaw
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Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership - to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.
Cesar Millan
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin
