"The question before us is, whether people of African ancestry compose a portion of this people, and are constituent members of this sovereignty? We think they are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."

-- Roger Brooke Taney

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.”
“The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”

Source : "Analogies between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and His Los Alamos Collaborators". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 1990.
“I have made love to ten thousand women.”

Source : Quoted in L'Express, 21 Feb. 1977
“Nature is the worst terrorist you can imagine.”
“People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.”

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (2012). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.65, Routledge
“Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.”
“For at least the past 65 years, liberalism has been nothing if not an attempt to strike a balance between the needs of the community and the needs of individuals, between the need for freedom and the need for order.”

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