When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Fear, coercion, punishment, are the masculine remedies for moral weakness, but statistics show their failure for centuries. Why not change the system… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“The morality that would un-self man is the morality of decline par excellence—the fact, "I am declining," transposed into the imperative, "all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
It is extreme arrogance for one to think he is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It's more difficult to be a friend - even though they… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“In The Moral Animal, Robert Wright laments, "A basic underlying dynamic between men and women is mutual exploitation. They seem, at times,… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
Really it's all about what's inside the Superman suit. How you feel about yourself when you put that on because it's very… — Brandon Routh Copy Share Image
On stage, you have the instant reaction. I'm in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing.… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I've just finished a series of Olivia Manning novels. She's best known for two trilogies: Balkan Trilogy and Levant Trilogy. The six… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I'm always tempted in the back of my mind to continue to write things in the Star Trek universe, in the novels… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Wickedly Dangerous translates a terrifying figure from folklore , the Baba Yaga, into the smart, resourceful, motorcycle-riding Barbara Yager, who travels with… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped… — H. E. Bates Copy Share Image
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
“The law of our being is Love of Life, and its interests and adornments; love of the world in which our lot… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“People become desensitized to many things going on around them. It is because they always see it on the tv, hear it… — Amaka Imani Nkosazana Copy Share Image
I was debating whether to do Legally Blonde, and I saw this interview with Gloria Steinem about how important Goldie Hawn's role… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I do not believe it is in the character of the British people to begrudge the lion's share to those who have… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from… — Socrates Copy Share Image
is grey, and I like that about all the characters, the killer, the driver... the movie has a very unlikely Hollywood ending,… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
“Character isn’t something that magically appears simply by virtue of having a birthday and a describable physical identity; it is something that… — Billy Marshall-Stoneking Copy Share Image
To be honest, for me, if I really believe in a story and in a character, and I want to tell something,… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love… — Sylvia Hoeks Copy Share Image
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