I hope and believe my co-religionists understand and admit that I disclaim their theology in toto, and that by no twisting of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a… — John Keats Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman,… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive… — Robert Sirico Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often appeal to parsimony when they seek to explain why organisms "match" with respect to a given trait. For example,… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any… — George Mason Copy Share Image
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms,… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
It is not as common as female/male prostitution, but yes my friends and I had female clients. But this is a request… — Annie Lobert Copy Share Image
My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
The first objective of our national government is to provide for the common defense. And President Donald Trump has no higher priority… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Polls show that most people in the world favor humbler, more compassionate solutions to our common problems. Not only favor them but,… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision… — Sha Zukang Copy Share Image
Where beats a heart within a human breast, There be Thou present, and Thy power adored! And oh! since all one common… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it.… — F. Burton Howard Copy Share Image
"But when you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. 'And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
![“[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive and commercialism. Yet, they seem to think that the key to happiness is giving people more stuff - by enlisting the coercive power of government. This perverse way of thinking…” quote by Robert Sirico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d5/robert-sirico-66948_commercialism_there-is-a-strange-split-in-thinking-com_437064.jpg)
