#ideas

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#amounted #came #cut #facing #five

Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#almost #anxiety #around #being #being a man

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. ↗

— Aristotle

#ideas #make #nor #number #once

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do. ↗

— John Astin

#dreams #encouragement #hopes #ideas #insight

I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#i #ideas #ideology #say #straight

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #hip-hop #ideas #locked #mostly

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bounce #encouraged #everyone #go #i

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature. ↗

— Cao Yu

#difficult #digest #ideas #literature #number

There was just such a man when I was young—an Austrian who invented a new way of life and convinced himself that he was the chap to make it work. He tried to impose his reformation by the sword, and plunged the civilized world into misery and chaos. But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ. Perhaps we may assume that Jesus knew as much as the Austrian did about saving people. But the odd thing is that Jesus did not turn the disciples into strom troopers, burn down the Temple at Jerusalem, and fix the blame on Pontius Pilate. On the contrary, he made it clear that the business of the philosopher was to make ideas available, and not to impose them on people. ↗

— T.H. White

#free-will #hitler #ideas #ideas-are-power #jesus

Ideas combined with courage can change the world. ↗

— David Litwack

#dystopia #dystopian-fiction #ideas #change