Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It… — Al Gini Copy Share Image
Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to… — Richard Cushing Copy Share Image
The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of,… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
The past history of human belief is a cautionary tale. We have killed thousands of our fellow human beings because we believed… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow… — Liza Donnelly Copy Share Image
That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to… — Dat Phan Copy Share Image
