Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.


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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY
I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN
It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY
than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY
Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO