Benjamin Disraeli On Love

June 29th, 2006

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

- Benjamin Disraeli

George Bernard Shaw On Science

June 28th, 2006

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

- George Bernard Shaw

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow On Love

June 28th, 2006

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry David Thoreau On Knowledge & Learning

June 27th, 2006

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

- Henry David Thoreau

J. D. Salinger On Love

June 26th, 2006

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

- J. D. Salinger

Fidel Castro On Politics

June 26th, 2006

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

- Fidel Castro

Andre Gide On Art

June 25th, 2006

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

- Andre Gide

Colin Powell On History

June 25th, 2006

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

- Colin Powell

Margaret Atwood On Love

June 24th, 2006

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

- Margaret Atwood

Albert Camus On Art

June 24th, 2006

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

- Albert Camus