There are things that we just can't deduce from particle physics -- life, agency, meaning, value and this thing called consciousness. -- Stuart Kauffman There...
Every child begins the world again. -- Henry David Thoreau Children reinvent your world for you. -- Susan Sarandon Babies are such a nice way to start people. ...
Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All -- Holiday Message What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a...
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas Laissez-Faire...
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. -- Czeslaw Milosz Give me your tired, your...
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The age of a person doesn't matter....
Beware the man of a single book. -- Bertrand Russell When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. -- Erasmus Corporations...
We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus - and non-believers. -- President Barack Obama, from his inaugural address The way to know God is to...
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's. -- Jean Paul Richter The greater part of what my neighbors call good I...
The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. -- Thomas Carlyle The notion that we can take and take and take and take, waste and waste, without...
Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -- Robert Frost I have a dream that my four...
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see...
In the circles of contemporary Republicanism, the ability to hate is the most highly valued of skills. That is main reason why, in the party's time of current...
We are all atheists with respect to Zeus and Thor. -- Sam Harris Women have child-bearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more...
The most important thing in a relationship is not what you get but what you give. -- Eleanor Roosevelt CORPORATION, n: An ingenious device for obtaining...
The Republicans are like an arsonist who complains that the fire department is wasting water. -- Paul Begala, on criticisms of President Obama's budget You can...
We may have elected a liberal Democratic president and Democratic Congress, but our discourse remains rooted in hardline conservative assumptions. -- Eric...
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. -- John Archibald Wheeler I have a love for humankind, a love of truth,...
The United States has the lowest taxes of all developed nations. -- Robert Reich Have you ever noticed that the states where anti-tax sentiment is strongest...
I always knew the Americans would bring electricity to Baghdad. I just never thought they'd be shooting it up my ass. -- Iraqi translator in "Abu Ghraib: The...
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. -- James Keller There is no way to overstate the horror of gun violence in America. Roughly 16,000 to 17,000...
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. -- George Bernard Shaw I think the creativity in nature is so stunning and so...
The corporation is designed to make money without regard to human life, the social good or impact on the environment. -- Chris Hedges The corporations don't...
When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. Its a whole different way of thinking. -- Elayne Boosler Hasn't America...
We can pay for education today -- or prisons tomorrow. -- Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not...
Empathy is at the heart of progressive thought. It is the capacity to put oneself in the shoes of others -- not just individuals, but whole categories of...
Our health care system has failed us. Troll through World Health Organization data and cringe: Americans live shorter lives than Greeks, our kids are twice as...
We are more than cells, synapses and sex drives. We are amazing, mysterious creatures forever in search of something greater than ourselves. -- Charles M. Blow...
I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. -- Rep. Barney Frank Can we envision an economy designed to serve the society, rather...
