Joyce Carol Oates
James T. O'Brien
Sean O'Casey
Eugene O'Neill
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Orben
P. J. O'Rourke
George Orwell (Eric Blair)
Marie Osmond
James Otis
Peter O'Toole
Ovid
Robert Owen
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Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.
Regardless of how much patience we have, we would prefer never to use any of it.
The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another's labor is the original sin of the world.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.
The tragedy of man is perhaps the only significant thing about him.
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin, and this is a knowledge they cannot lose.
There must be no barriers for freedom in inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Live your life so that if someone says "Be yourself" it's good advice.
The Republicans are the party that says the government doesn' work and then they get elected and prove it.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
Even young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is truth.
All aminals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul.
Saints should always be judged guilty until proven innocent.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
In a society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behavior is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If life, liberty, and property could be enjoyed in as great perfection in solitude as in society, there would be no need of government.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying, and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Nothing is stronger than custom.
All things change, yet nothing is extinguished.
It is expedient that there be gods, and as it is expedient, let us so believe.
If she is chaste where there be no fear of detection, she is truly chaste.
What ideas individuals may attach to the term Millenium I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any, misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever except ignorance, to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.
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