To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. – Captain J. G. Stedman
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. – Barbara Ehrenreich
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed. – Richard A. Nelson
We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents. – Justice William J. Brennan, for the Majority US Supreme Court Decision, 3 July 1
