In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full… — William Habington Copy Share Image
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact,… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don't hold back on one another or try to gain at… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice,… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
You were right. My whole crew. Gone. Arrested. Perfect. Shoot me now and save me the expense of a bullet later. (Tory) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle. — John Bradford Copy Share Image
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service… — Carl Baugh Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun. — Margaret Culkin Banning Copy Share Image
You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
I have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
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