Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion,… — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The first thing that I've got to think about is: What does a Donald Trump presidency mean for the people of my… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is a matter of course and of absolute necessity to the conduct of business, that any discretionary businessman must be free… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Mozart's music is particularly difficult to perform. His admirable clarity exacts absolute cleanness: the slightest mistake in it stands out like black… — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
One, we [with Alison McGhee] laugh a lot - that was great. Two, I enjoy writing, but it's a lonely undertaking. To… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
However, because of your interconnectedness with all things, other beings still have a problem, and when you realize that you have no… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
There is no beginning and there is no end. Nothing is final. There is no absolute. There is no highest point, nor… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
It is thought strange and particularly shocking by some persons for a woman to question the absolute correctness of the Bible. She… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much… — Paul Outerbridge Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image