Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider — Kay Bojesen Copy Share Image
Thanks in part to the Patriot Act, the federal government has been able to demand some details of your online activities from… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Tax the rich. End the wars. Break the power of lobbies in Washington. These are the demands of Occupy Wall Street. They… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and… — Malvina Hoffman Copy Share Image
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Advertising and the free society are closely connected. Advertising helps to make a free society remain so by increasing competition, and by… — John Treasure Copy Share Image
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment...… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity. — Gilles Clement Copy Share Image
Consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, but law, morality and leadership demand it. Without consistency, there is privilege. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people. — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol. — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
