#doe

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#condemned #does #everything #free #into

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#emotion #erase #forgetting #kind #lays

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #followed #give #government #iraqi

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#does #everyone #for the people #mean #only

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#disservice #does #long #our #reason

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#does #grief #like #speak