#ria

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

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#been #century #democracy #glad #half

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. ↗

— Edward Said

#almost #could #european #every #homer

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#comprehend #concepts #desired #elementary #few

I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us. ↗

— Leverett Saltonstall

#church #citizens #confidence #days #fellow

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#culture #marriage #olympism

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not. ↗

— Nia Long

#after #brian #going #i #me

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken. ↗

— Bobby Sands

#break #broken #imperial #irishman #nothing

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction. ↗

— Milton Sapirstein

#ideal #like #marriage #mother

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies