Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
James Bovard

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
Saul Bellow

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
Alexander Haig

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
Dan Brown

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
Pat Brown

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.
Tom Holt

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
Asa Gray

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan Abedi

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
Sloan Wilson

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Maya Lin

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
Warren Beatty

The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
James Lipton

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler