Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A trend is a trend is a trend. But the question is, will it bend? Will it alter its course through some unforeseen force and come to a premature end?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest -- whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories -- comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I cannot believe that this country cannot come together around some values what these kids need is a moral life... the issue is not ideas, it is conduct. The real question is how we reach these young people morally, and what do we bring to them.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligentlyMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: Is it true in and for itself?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If you do not ask the right questions, you do not get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the A-B-C of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Never answer a question from a farmer.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question of common sense is what is it good for? A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Next to inflation, majority rule is the most ingenious scheme ever contrived by government. Most people have never dared to question the basic morality or logic in the assumption that the majority should have power over the minority. A majority of the people in the South once believed in black slavery. Did that make it moral? A lynch mob is majority rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. In a community where homosexuals outnumber heterosexuals, should the majority have the right to outlaw sex between married partners of the opposite sex? In a community where atheists outnumber non- atheists, should the majority have the right to outlaw the practice of religion? ... a dictatorship allows only a small number of people to interfere with the rights of others, a democracy makes it possible for great numbers of people to impose their will on others -- through the force of government. Is an act of aggression more right if carried out by the majority than by a dictator? Since approximately half the eligible voters vote this means that approximately 75% of the people are ruled by 25% of the people.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The most important thing in their lives was to have a lawsuit going. It was not a question of winning or losing it, and indeed it was vital to do neither, for otherwise the suit would be over and done with. A lawsuit was part of the personality, if not the only visible sign of it, to such an extent that there was often no real animosity between the litigants, because they both needed each other.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]