The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Niels Bohr

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
Ambrose Bierce

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
J. Paul Getty

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
Robert E. Lee

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
Barney Frank

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Paul Tillich

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it's exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.
Jimmy Buffett

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
Larry Bird

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
Jon Stewart

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
Susan Sontag

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
Susan B. Anthony

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Marshall McLuhan