above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In the past we used to think of poverty in absolute terms - meaning straightforward material deprivation... We need to think of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers --… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
It should be carefully noted that Jesus did not say, "I am one of the equally good ways" or "I am a… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In the universe there are only a few absolutes of value; something is valuable because it can be eaten for nourishment or… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality “of closed eyes”, but one of “alertness”, one which entails an absolute duty to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Rich white people show up in a poor country to pursue their leisure-time fun, get served by black and brown people, and… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the… — Manfred Gerstenfeld Copy Share Image
I'm basically a happy person. I'm content with my life and my wife and my family. But you do reach a point… — Myles Kennedy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, "You know what?… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image
There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I think the French agonise more about being French, I don't think English think about being English that much. I think the… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Do you call it doubting to write down on a piece of paper that you doubt? If so, doubt has nothing to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
While they [on Cuba] were eating a healthy and sustainable diet and had no pollution over a period of years these health… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given… if it does exist, it exists to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Right discrimination is of two kinds analytical and synthetical. The first leads one from the phenomena to the Absolute Brahman, while by… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image