637 quotes found
“A little thinking is a dangerous thing.”
“So-called Islamic 'fundamentalism' does not spring, in Pakistan, from the people. It is imposed on them from above. Autocratic regimes find it useful to espouse the rhetoric of faith, because peopl...”
“Women have always moaned about men...but it turns out that their deepest complaints are reserved for one another, because while they expect men to be fickle, treacherous, and weak, they judge their...”
“The first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”
“...nothing seemed quite as romantic as holding hands while you climaxed.”
“Im saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. Im asking if youll stick this out beside me. Im willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if thats t...”
“Memories hold you back”
“It's okay. We're all messed up in our own special way.”
“The self was both its origins and its journey.”
“Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our...”
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether its a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, ...”
“You're a beautiful girl If you show the slightest interest in Alec, he'll want to go out with you. I know I would.”
“You cant fight like this. Youre not prepared and you are in no means in control of your emotions.”
“Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.”
“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.”
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal p...”
“Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.”
“Slaves are governed by the fear of man, and, whenever the fear of man replaces the fear of God in a society, slavery reappears and increases.”
“All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most che...”
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.”
