“His moral courage led him to question a great wrong and refuse, backed by his men, to take part in a horrific… — Tom Bensing Copy Share Image
“Look in the heart and write...The man who writes like that, without pride or artifice, as it were for himself, is in… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“Jesse Livermore, who declared in How to Trade in Stocks, “I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are being repeated. They are… — Gil Morales Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
“What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for… — Massimo Marino Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound… — Richard M. DeVos Copy Share Image
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
“As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Brilliant minds, though brimming with feeling, often remain silent — not from coldness, but out of sheer elegance.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
“For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own. — Terence Copy Share Image
Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“They ascribe omnipotence and omniscience to him and I don't know what else; it seems to me so strange that they never… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time… — William D Tammeus Copy Share Image
The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“True law necessarily is rooted in ethical assumptions or norms; and those ethical principles are derived, in the beginning at least, from… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We… — Gerald of Wales Copy Share Image
In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
