For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I tell my graduate students [at Bard College], ‘There are two ways to change the world: through policy, or through sustainable business.’… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy Copy Share Image
The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices,… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
While I think men in general should not fuss over how they look, I do feel as though they should make more… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I believe veganism can be beneficial for the individual and the world, and of course the animal, but belief is like laying… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that we are in crisis at this moment in our history. Most of this comes from our individualistic… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Certainly the affirmative pursuit of one's convictions about the ultimate mystery of the universe and man's relation to it is placed beyond… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely… — Carl Tuttle Copy Share Image
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas;… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and… — Carol Roth Copy Share Image
We Can Most Safely Achieve Truly Universal Tolerance When We Respect That Which Is Characteristic In The Individual And In Nations, Clinging,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image