When I started thinking about plans to avenge [my father], I realized I was only going to become someone worse than him,… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go… — Alexander H. Stephens Copy Share Image
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved… — Karen Hughes Copy Share Image
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What struck me most in England was the perception that only those works which have a practical tendency awake attention and command… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts.… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle.… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We too often satisfy ourselves with the perishable things of time, forgetting the opportunities we have of developing within us the great,… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors… — Charles Chiniquy Copy Share Image
Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners,… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
No political party is justified to continue in existence unless it clearly states the principles which it advocates, the platform upon which… — Henry D. Moyle Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws .… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
In his sophomore year Wilbanks tried out for the high school basketball team and made it. On the first day of practice… — Lynn G. Robbins Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and… — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
If I do, I say so. That's the only way out of that. If there are three words that need to be… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment... It… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image