We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have… — Moby Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Have you not budged an inch, then? Such is the daily news. Its facts appear to float in the atmosphere… We should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the… — Barbara Crossette Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
I'm trying to honestly do what I want to do, in the most honest way, and not worry about the consequences, because… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, the only unambiguous consequence of the claimed invasion of Earth by beings from another star system… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image