And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President;… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
I'm a former skydiver, I jumped out of all kinds of things including a hot air balloon. Ironically, once I started skydiving,… — Carlos Alazraqui Copy Share Image
When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
[Hillary Clinton] has talked about not being a natural campaigner. And she has this big shadow because her husband, the former president… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share Image
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Howard Dean was endorsed by former Vice President Al Gore and now he is getting advice from Al Gore. And I'm thinking,… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
It never really felt like I had a lot of substance in my life. I had broken up with my former husband… — Lynda Carter Copy Share Image
It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The attack against dogmas as such, therefore, strongly resembles the struggle against the general legal foundations of a state, and , as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image