For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am still baffled by those who feel that criticizing America is unpatriotic, a view increasingly being adopted in the United States… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers or a natural landscape, if he… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
No chemical compound in the atmosphere has a worse reputation than CO2, thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential… — William Happer Copy Share Image
Secular humanism does not have the essential attributes of a religion: belief in a deity, the wish for some sort of afterlife,… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so… — J. L. Mackie Copy Share Image
There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the… — Hans von Seeckt Copy Share Image
I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race. — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency. — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems. — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism. — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership… — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. — Thomas Alva Edison Copy Share Image
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
