Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It can sometimes be a hearbreaking struggle for us to arrive at a place where we are no longer afraid of the… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate.” — Whitney Otto Copy Share Image
I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't have a mind of your own among the crowd, then the crowd owns your mind. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
Don't change your self for someone, if they don't appreciate the way you are find someone who will... — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white… — Solomon Asch Copy Share Image
The happiest people on earth are not those who live on their terms, but those who change their terms for the one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Legalism insists on conformity to manmade religious rules and requirements, which are often unspoken but are nevertheless very real... There are far… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
