If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike… — Susannah York Copy Share Image
Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Just the wrong perspective,” he said. “We’re squaring them up to be the enemy, but mostly because we need an enemy.” “So… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is… — James Agee Copy Share Image
A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“Now that it’s too late, now that I lie here dying on this bloodstained sand, I finally get it. I understand, now.… — Matthew Woodring Stover Copy Share Image
For me, the enemy is procrastination, and losing attention, you know? It's not the writing that's difficult, it's sitting down to write… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
If you believe in a security strategy - a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies, a strategy of greater cooperation and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I think a legitimate target is the enemy and [the] enemy is basically in uniform, but not all [are] in Uniform. For… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be. The… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
We salute our veterans of Pearl Harbor and World War II, whose sacrifices saved democracy during a dark hour. In their memory,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is… — Timothy Hallinan Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic… — Clive James Copy Share Image