True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music… — Kreayshawn Copy Share Image
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The notion that somehow through a trade war or protectionism or magical thinking that we're going to return to a romanticized economic… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Gerald R. Ford was a decent and honorable man. Under his steady hand, the nation began the process of recovering from the… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
If things go badly for me tonight, I want you to stay with Mr. Wynter; he will pay you a decent wage.”… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country.… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I used to be ashamed by the way that I grew up. I tried to lie my way through better times, but… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build.… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Don't take it out on the Muslims. Don't take it out on Latinos. Try to help us work together to create a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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