Lobelog Quotes & Sayings

In the 18th Century William Blake saw Heaven in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even see the writing on the wall. — Dean Cavanagh

Many criminologists believe that the source of the state's pacifying effect isn't just its brute coercive power but the trust it commands among the populace. After all, no state can post an informant in every pub and farmhouse to monitor breaches of the law, and those that try are totalitarian dictatorships that rule by fear, not civilized societies where people coexist through self-control and empathy. A Leviathan can civilize a society only when the citizens feel that its laws, law enforcement, and other social arrangements are legitimate, so that they don't fall back on their worst impulses as soon as Leviathan's back is turned. — Steven Pinker

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it. — Anthony Robbins

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as an apothecary for the soul. — Arianna Huffington

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics. — Victoria Azarenka