So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The young man who closes the door behind him, who draws the curtains, and there in silence pleads with God for help,… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“difference in kind between empirical questions characteristic of science and philosophical questions about the fact of existence itself (a distinction lost on… — Brad S. Gregory Copy Share Image
“he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
“Out of my thoughts! You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But… — Alan McCluskey Copy Share Image
The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea,… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is… — AashiQi Copy Share Image
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"?… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building… — Carl G. Fisher Copy Share Image