Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2137.
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Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
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Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.
The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970) -
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
A Distant Mirror -
Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize "world peace" even when we get it.
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War as Napoleon knew it just not possible any more. However, we're very unlikely to accept or recognize 'world peace' even when we get it.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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