Quotes for All
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself… which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it … Read more
There’s a joke about the balloon boy who has a balloon mum and a balloon dad and he goes to a balloon school with balloon friends ad a balloon principal. And one day, the balloon boy decides to take a pin to his balloon school, which is, of course, a disaster. And he’s called into … Read more
If i wouldn’t have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids’ attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian … Read more
If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then…selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars. Ethan Nadelmann
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that of oppressing and exploiting the masses, of defending the oppressors and the exploiters: and it’s principal, characteristic and indispensable instruments are the police agent and the tax-collector, the soldier and … Read more
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology. Ernest Renan
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, In Case of Fire, Throw This in First. I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this. Erma Bombeck
My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara. Eric Stoltz
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print. Eric Bell
You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth? Epictetus