When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just… — George Gallup Copy Share Image
As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in… — Richard Reti Copy Share Image
The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write as… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I would never put a sculpture in front of a painting, so that it is difficult to see the painting. I always… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
I think most people are motivated to want to do what is best for themselves. People want to avoid STDs. I believe… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back.… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being constantly together. So everybody, as individuals.… — Andrea Corr Copy Share Image
When an individual from underprivileged background gets higher education, he/she uplifts the entire family. 90% of students at Namal college are from… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image