So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it. — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
The more ardent the love for the Eucharist in the hearts of the Christian people, the more clearly will they recognize the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: 'If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as… — Angela of Foligno Copy Share Image
