An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
For Islamic fundamentalists male "honor" is equated with control over the women in a man's family - to the extent that killing… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“A "knowing" public is a consenting public. We know what is really going on. Time to do something about it.” — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The true light never hides the darkness but is born out of the very center of it, transforming and redeeming. So to… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. .… — Melvin Belli Copy Share Image
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Pascal in his bitter rendition of the practices of the Jesuit intellectuals he despised, including their demonstration of "the utility of interpretation,"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“If I am a pawn in someone else's chess game, you better believe I am going to demand an explanation before being… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. — Howard Hughes Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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