Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having… — Ibrahim Rugova Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Our going to Washington [The Million Man March] was not to petition government, but to petition our God and Creator, that we… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made-or failed to make. (Not… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies.… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of… — Anna Kingsford Copy Share Image
Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you,… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
IN THE BEGINNING I undertook my walking not only to contact people, I undertook it as a prayer discipline to keep me… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the… — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Do we do away with protecting of the American people with pre - to make sure that if you have an illness… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image