It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
If somebody murders somewhere, I have a part in it. Even if I am a sleeper - I was sleeping, I don´t… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, it seemed like there were so many girls who were known by their first names, who were… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
It's the same thing in a way with privacy. You can say "I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore this doesn't concern me,"… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American,… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people.… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to mediate between individual agency and structural determination. I accept that people make individual choices, quite thoughtful, quite careful, quite… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What inspires me is what I see people wearing on the streets of the world from New York to London and beyond.… — Steve Madden Copy Share Image
I created my foundation as a result of that and my website, and I try to shed some light on some very… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
You go back and you examine the reasons America was founded, why it worked, what was magic about it, and you find… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
White privilege allows a certain kind of leisure that can be deployed by white people of advantage toward our restoration. That's all… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference,… — Meera Syal Copy Share Image
I'm talking of the idea, basically very widespread in America, that the less government the better, which is obviously being used to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love,… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Business today is all about improvisation, which is the essence of jazz. Perhaps in the past we could just follow the operating… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What a museum chooses to exhibit is sometimes less important than how such decisions are made and what values inform them. To… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image