Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
Ferran Adria
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy
One person's religion is another person's cult.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.
Helen Gurley Brown
I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.
Andre Kertesz
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Jules Verne
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River,
And Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China;
Past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells
On the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom;
A Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud;
The foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain;
And now, when the heavens are propitious for action,
Here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.
Wang Wei
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
Reinhold Niebuhr
