W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. W. E. B. Du [...]

Bernardo Bertolucci

I don’t think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. Bernardo Bertolucci I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. Bernardo Bertolucci A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy. Bernardo Bertolucci I am still against any kind of censorship. It’s a subject [...]

Isabella Bird

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. Isabella Bird

Peter Bichsel

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. Peter Bichsel Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. Peter Bichsel Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for [...]

Henry Beston

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. Henry Beston The seas are the heart’s blood of the earth. Henry Beston [...]

Bruno Bettelheim

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. Bruno Bettelheim Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. Bruno Bettelheim Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with [...]

Mary Frances Berry

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can’t be done. Mary Frances Berry When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don’t believe in compromise. Mary Frances Berry Civil Rights opened the windows. [...]

Steven Jesse Bernstein

My relationship to gravity is permanently altered. Steven Jesse Bernstein

Al Bernstein

Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. Al Bernstein A fool and his money get a lot of publicity. Al Bernstein Easy doesn’t do it. Al Bernstein If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. Al Bernstein Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. Al [...]

Alexander Berkman

War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Alexander Berkman War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. Alexander Berkman  

Stella Benson

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger. Stella Benson Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. Stella Benson

Warren Bennis

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on. Warren Bennis I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn’t very good at being a president. I looked out [...]

Jose Bergamin

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. Jose Bergamin The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. Jose Bergamin An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics. Jose Bergamin Better than succeeding little by little [...]

Greg Bear

Working in Isaac’s universe was more of a treat than a challenge. Greg Bear It’s been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West! Greg Bear

Simone de Beauvoir

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. Simone de Beauvoir Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir All oppression creates a state of war. Simone de Beauvoir I [...]

Thomas Haynes Bayly

We met, ’twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. Thomas Haynes Bayly Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Thomas Haynes Bayly

Ann Beattie

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that. Ann Beattie I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but [...]

Melody Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie Live your life fom your heart. Share from your [...]

Otto Bauer

The dissolution of the Party – we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts. Otto Bauer A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character. [...]

H. E. Bates

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl. H. E. Bates

Georges Bataille

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. Georges Bataille The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of [...]

Julian Barnes

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren’t. Julian Barnes The land of embarrassment and breakfast. Julian Barnes As I’ve explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page [...]

John Perry Barlow

Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. John Perry Barlow Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, [...]

Clive Barker

Gather experience… Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this. Clive Barker I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else – but I’m absolutely nothing special. Clive Barker You can plan to be brave – it’s [...]

George Linnaeus Banks

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do. George Linnaeus Banks For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do. George [...]

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