Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. Emil Cioran
The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not. Germaine Greer
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade. Adam Smith
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics. James Weldon Johnson
The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images. Oskar Kokoschka