There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown... →
Michael Eric Dyson
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. de Klerk
You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.
Melissa De Sousa
Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos... →
Frans de Waal
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the... →
Terry Eagleton
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Amelia Earhart
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most... →
Alice Morse Earle
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
Roger Ebert
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than... →
Meister Eckhart
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a... →
Umberto Eco