Apolitical Intellectuals Quotes & Sayings

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress. — L.A. Serrot

Effort is the siamese twin of success — Shane Koyczan

When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy. — Dan Gable

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment. — Samuel Johnson

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind ... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location ... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true. — Samuel E. Morison

To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities. — Tom Vilsack

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle. — Mary Russell Mitford

The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. — Karl Marx

A book always keeps something of its owner between its pages. — Cornelia Funke

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward. — Ai Weiwei