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I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters. — Donald Trump · 2016 I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star … to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius … and a very stable genius at that! — Donald Trump · 2018 I alone can fix it. — Donald Trump · 2016 I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump · 2015 When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total. — Donald Trump · 2020 When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. — Donald Trump · 2015 All 22 quotes →

Politics11 quotes

Always vote. — Walt Whitman · 1871 The various admirable movements in which I have been engaged have always developed among their members a large lunatic fringe. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1913 Your silence will not protect you. — Audre Lorde · 1977 Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia · 2002 Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. — George Shultz · 1986 We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose. — Mario Cuomo · 1985 All 11 quotes →

America7 quotes

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871 Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door! — Emma Lazarus · 1883 God bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains to the prairies, To the oceans white with foam, God bless America, My home sweet home. — Irving Berlin · 1938 The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. — Walt Whitman · 1855 I like to be in America! Ok by me in America! Everything free in America For a small fee in America! — Stephen Sondheim · 1957 The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land. — Washington Irving · 1836 All 7 quotes →

Art7 quotes

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. — Clement Greenberg · 1945 We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. — Henry James · 1893 Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. — Dorothea Lange Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. — Thomas Merton · 1955 Now the art world has become the art market. — Eric Fischl · 2014 An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before? — Francis Ford Coppola · 2011 All 7 quotes →

Democracy6 quotes

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989 In a racially divided society majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy. — Lani Guinier · 1992 It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. — Walt Whitman · 1871 Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment. — Antonin Scalia · 2002 I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty. — William F. Buckley · 1961 A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. — Norman Mailer · 1964

Men and women6 quotes

Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996 Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you. — Irving Berlin · 1946 A man has every season, while a woman has only the right to spring. — Jane Fonda · 1989 When guys cheat, it’s like we want something new. But then you know what happens? Your woman finds out, and now she’s new. She is never the same again. — Chris Rock · 2018 The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his—attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park. — Henry James · 1881 Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. — Marilyn French · 1977

Progress6 quotes

We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! — Walt Whitman · 1867 For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders, undreamt of in our time, will we have wrought in another generation? — Carl Sagan · 1994 Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. — Heywood Broun · 1928 Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe We shall overcome, some day. — Pete Seeger · 1962 The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. — Jerome Bruner · 1960 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin · 1962

Women6 quotes

What the fuck do women want? I know what you want: everything. — Chris Rock · 1999 When the working day is done Oh girls, they wanna have fun Oh, girls just wanna have fun — Cyndi Lauper · 1979 What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser · 1968 Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg · 2009 Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes. — Marilyn French · 1977 The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep. — Audre Lorde · 1977

Black experience5 quotes

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. — Lewis Allan · 1937 Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. — Countee Cullen · 1925 Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted. — Sammy Davis, Jr. · 1965 It comes as a great shock around the age of 5, 6, or 7 to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. — James Baldwin · 1965 My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart. — James Baldwin · 1955

Man and animals5 quotes

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. — Herman Melville · 1851 I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. — Walt Whitman · 1855 A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. — Carl Sagan · 1992 Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species. — William James · 1904 In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. — Edward Hoagland · 1975

Political theory5 quotes

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. — Benjamin Cardozo · 1923 Of that freedom one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. — Benjamin Cardozo · 1937 Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. — George Shultz · 1986 The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan · 1985 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. — Robert Maynard Hutchins · 1954

Relationships5 quotes

Relationships: easy to get into, hard to maintain. Why are they so hard to maintain? Cause it’s hard to keep up the lie. 'Cause you can't get nobody being you. You got to lie to get somebody. You can't get nobody lookin' like you look, actin' like you act, soundin' like you sound. That's right, when you meet somebody for the first time, you're not meeting them. You're meeting their representative! — Chris Rock · 1999 Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender. — Chris Rock · 1996 Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. — Erica Jong · 1973 When you’re in a relationship, you’re in a band. And when you’re in a band you have roles that you play in the band. Sometimes you sing lead, and sometimes you’re on tambourine. — Chris Rock · 2008 I shall never marry; I regard that now as an established fact, and on the whole a very respectable one; I am both happy enough and miserable enough, as it is, and don't wish to add to either side of the account. — Henry James · 1884

Success5 quotes

Showing up is 80 percent of life. — Woody Allen · 1977 Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1899 Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure. — Joseph Heller · 1975 The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease. — William James · 1906 Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one. — Barbra Streisand · 1963

The universe5 quotes

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan · 1980 The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. — Stanley Kubrick · 1968 The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan · 1980 The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. — Steven Weinberg · 1977 It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. — Steven Weinberg · 1977

Being in love4 quotes

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948 Heaven,-I'm in heaven-And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek. — Irving Berlin · 1935 Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin · 1937 My funny valentine, Sweet comic valentine, You make me smile with my heart. Your looks are laughable, Unphotographable, Yet you're my fav'rite work of art. — Lorenz Hart · 1937

Books4 quotes

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before. — Clifton Fadiman · 1957 Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Barbara Tuchman · 1980 An accident of timing makes the book in question indelible. — Colson Whitehead · 2005 What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. — Carl Sagan · 1980

Cold War4 quotes

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989 We will all go together when we go, All suffused with an incandescent glow. — Tom Lehrer · 1959 I consider your crime worse than murder... Who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal, you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country. — Irving R. Kaufman · 1951 The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963

Courage4 quotes

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1960 Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1899 Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1963 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James Baldwin · 1962

Interconnectedness of all people4 quotes

People, people who need people Are the luckiest people in the world. — Barbra Streisand · 1964 On the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1901 You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive. — James Baldwin · 1963 Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth. — Carl Sagan · 1980

International politics4 quotes

Speak softly and carry a big stick. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1900 What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy. — Francis Fukuyama · 1989 Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table. — George Shultz · 1986 The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick · 1963

Life4 quotes

Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. — James Baldwin · 1984 I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall · 1988 Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James · 1903 Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989

Love4 quotes

When you really love somebody, you got to love everything about them. You got to love the crust of a motherfucker. You can’t just love the white part of the bread. You got to love the crust, the crumbs, the little fuckin' crumbs at the bottom of the toaster. That’s what the real motherfucker is. — Chris Rock · 1999 In time the Rockies may crumble, Gibraltar may tumble, They're only made of clay, But our love is here to stay. — Ira Gershwin · 1938 She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together. — J.D. Salinger · 1948 Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky, Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it if you try. — Ira Gershwin · 1937

New York City4 quotes

There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning. — Howard Cosell · 1977 The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost. — John Jay Chapman · 1909 The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. — Moss Hart · 1959 No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now. — Colson Whitehead · 2003

Nuclear weapons4 quotes

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita…"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1965 North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! — Donald Trump · 2018 It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable. — J. Robert Oppenheimer · 1946 The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again. — Norman Mailer · 1963

Randomness4 quotes

That's the way the ball bounces. — George Mandel · 1952 Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989 We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1996 Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989

Taking action4 quotes

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1960 It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1910 Action brings with it its own courage, its own energy, a growth of self-confidence that can be acquired in no other way. — Eleanor Roosevelt · 1963 You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it. — Lawrence Weiner · 2015

The human condition4 quotes

I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. — Walt Whitman · 1855 Life's a bitch and then you die That's why we get high Cause you never know When you're gonna go. — Nas · 1994 The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. — Steven Weinberg · 1977 You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive. — James Baldwin · 1963

American Presidency3 quotes

I have got such a bully pulpit! — Theodore Roosevelt · 1909 There'll be great Presidents again-and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me-but there'll never be another Camelot again. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis · 1963 To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. — Theodore Roosevelt · 1918

American decline3 quotes

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871 Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now. — Donald Trump · 2017 For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. — Donald Trump · 2017

Animals3 quotes

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. — Herman Melville · 1851 I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. — Walt Whitman · 1855 A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us. — Carl Sagan · 1992

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