What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
“There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
“Here the mystery of drinking the cup becomes clear. The coming and leaving of friends, the experiences of love and betrayal, of… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“A predominantly voluntary exchange economy, on the other hand, has within it the potential to promote both prosperity and human freedom. It… — Milton Freidman Copy Share Image
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence… — William T. Cavanaugh Copy Share Image
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