Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity… — David Friedrich Strauss Copy Share Image
For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They… — David Barton Copy Share Image
The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars… — Dave Hampton Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids,… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it… — Hal David Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Humility is an attribute of godliness possessed by true Saints. It is easy to understand why a proud man fails. He is… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Two questions help us see why we are unlikely to get what we want by using punishment... The first question is: What… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits and this is perhaps more evident… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all the Virtuosi… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
It becomes evident that when the Life-power awakens its mysterious activity at the beginning of a cycle of manifestation those vibrations which… — Paul Foster Case Copy Share Image
And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living":… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry. — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
