In many rural areas of the world, local communities use kerosene for indoor lighting, which leads to asthma, poor quality of light,… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This is American leadership at its best. We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the government's decision to renew our military mission against… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle --… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“It’s only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away,… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Some global hazards are insidious. They stem from pressure on energy supplies, food, water and other natural resources. And they will be… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our… — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
It would degrade our country and our judicial system to permit our courts to be bullied, insulted and humiliated and the orderly… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is no place in "our Army" for those who sexually harass or intimidate others, or whose use of alcohol or drugs… — Glen E. Morrell Copy Share Image
The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul… — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening,… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of… — Matthew Chapman Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
