Syllabuses Or Syllabi Quotes & Sayings

Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor. — John W. Miller

By all measures men are the more violent gender. — Steven Pinker

I will say something still easier. Take a single flea or louse-since you tempt and mock our God with this talk about curing a lame horse-and if, after combining all the powers and concentrating all the efforts both of your good and all your supporters, you succeed in killing it in the name of free choice, you shall be victorious, your case shall be established, and we too will come at once and worship that god of yours, that wonderful killer of the louse. — Martin Luther

You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered. — Catherynne M Valente

How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government. — Bob Schaffer

Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone ... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave. — Henry David Thoreau

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts. — William Lyon Phelps

The craft of putting together a performance on film or television is incredibly intricate; you're putting together a story that is completely out of order, that you have to make some sense of, that you have to keep some coherence to the story, to the character. — Gabriel Mann

Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ... If this continues, I withdraw my subscription. — Victor Hugo