[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. — John Cage Copy Share Image
My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing. — Lie Yukou Copy Share Image
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Christian obligation cannot be made to accord with a law of expediency. The Christian's maxims are, Do right because you are bound… — Francis Landey Patton Copy Share Image
We have a deal. And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great.… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish… — Sengcan Copy Share Image
We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Results should not be too voluntarily aimed at or too busily thought of. They are sure to float up of their own… — William James Copy Share Image
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right… — Sarah Wollaston Copy Share Image
There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The righteousness of men should be treated with the same respect that one would accord to a rattlesnake. Things are more like… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant.… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image