Home » Name Name 1 We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. Victor Hugo Women, Slavery, Name Add to Collection 2 Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it. Isabel Allende Change, Support, Name Add to Collection 3 The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. Isaac Newton Respect, Name, Belong Add to Collection 4 We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.' Warren Buffett Romantic, Believe, Name Add to Collection 5 National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer Character, Name, Country Add to Collection 6 We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time. Martin Heidegger Time, Name, Right Time Add to Collection 7 The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit. Theodor Adorno Powerful, Name, Credit Add to Collection 8 Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. Mark Twain Greatest, Name, Accident Add to Collection 9 Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde Experience, Mistakes, Name Add to Collection 10 O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare Wine, Devil, Name Add to Collection 11 What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare Rose, Sweet, Name Add to Collection 12 What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi Homeless, Democracy, Name Add to Collection
