Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
Ideas Quotes
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you’ve got nothing else to try. If they work, they go into the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
Debating her (Ann Coulter) on her ‘ideas’ does about as much good as kicking a retarded puppy.
You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.
Man’s abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.
