Vasily Kandinsky Quotes & Sayings

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. — Jane Smiley

[H]aving the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted electronic surveillance is almost enough to make one believe not only that there is a god, but that he is an ardent civil libertarian. — Glenn Greenwald

I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up. — Gordon Brown

Strangely enough, a blow which does not even find its mark can, under certain circumstance, hurt more than one that finds its mark — Viktor E. Frankl

Most moral relativists believe that tolerance of cultural diversity is better, in some important sense, than outright bigotry. This may be perfectly reasonable, of course, but it amounts to an overarching claim about how all human beings should live. Moral relativism, when used as a rationale for tolerance of diversity, is self-contradictory. — Sam Harris

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility. — Kirk Douglas

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong. — Samuel Johnson

I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside. — Mia Sheridan

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all. — Stephen Batchelor

For a moment, Blue was actually lost for words. She had never believed people who claimed to be speechless, but she was. She opened her mouth, and at first, all that came out was air. Then something like the beginning of a laugh. Then, finally, she managed to sputter, I am not a prostitute. — Maggie Stiefvater

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom! — Mehmet Murat Ildan