#since

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#ever #fixer #i #i can #inventor

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#i #life #many #mine #my life

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#i #known #old #since #wanted

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#countries #day #days #earliest #her

I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#almost #being #combat #elements #even

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#deny #faith #good #good faith #his

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. ↗

— Edward Said

#almost #could #european #every #homer

I think that rather than condemning Islam, Islam needs to be studied by those who are sincere. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i think #islam #needs #rather