Instilled Thesaurus Quotes

#1. States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in their most war-torn centuries, suffered no more than around a quarter of the average death rate of nonstate societies, and less than a tenth of that for the most violent one.

Steven Pinker

#2. My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

Laura Mvula

#3. As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

Rodney King

#4. It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.

Felix Alba-Juez

#5. Hypnosis is a powerful force and in my opinion should be employed only by the best-trained and most ethical professionals for very
important reasons.

Joe J. Christensen

#6. Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.

Virgil

#7. Only when you are finally able, with the publican, to admit that you are dead will you be able to stop balking at grace.

Robert Farrar Capon

#8. The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

Al Gore

#9. Christians are the unstable, unlettered, superstitious masses

Pope Julius II

#10. Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Doing without will wear on you until temptation is stronger than character, sometimes.

Dan Groat

#12. I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

James Van Allen

#13. Be mindful that you may have inadvertently upset those who speak harshly to you. Know also that they may simply be complete arseholes.

Jo S. Wun

#14. Oh yes, children often commit murders. And quite clever ones, too. Some murderers, particularly the distinguished ones who are going to make great names for themselves, start amazingly early ... Like mathematicians and musicians. Poets develop later.

John Lee Mahin

#15. Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

Tom Clancy