Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
We have to think and see how we can fundamentally change our education system so that we can train people to develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about… — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
It's more like there are some really obvious things that are different and then lots and lots of smaller things, lots of… — Casey Hudson Copy Share Image
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
When others spoke of the fear of war, you spoke of the need for warriors and peace through strength. When others bewailed… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I believe that movements start when individuals who feel very isolated and very alone in the midst of an alien culture, come… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is… — Mike Hebert Copy Share Image
Views of women, on one side, as inwardly directed toward home and family and notions of men, on the other, as outwardly… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
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