Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
John Cage

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.
John Bonham

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
Antonio Tabucchi

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
Paul Farmer

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Joey Ramone

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
Thomas Mann

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.
Billy Corgan

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Pearl Bailey

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
Thor Heyerdahl

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.
Michael Crichton

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Isaiah Berlin