The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to… — African Spir Copy Share Image
It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
War may claim for itself the power to destroy and to clear the ground. It can never construct or create. It is… — Maude Royden Copy Share Image
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
We, as Aryans, can conceive of the state only as the living organism of a nationality which not only assures the preservation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family… — Ira Reiss Copy Share Image
New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable… — William James Copy Share Image
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing.… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
You see something very important is happening. Personality is being eaten out, and with that the idealism that always motivated an anarchist… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom... In its beginnings, the United States of America spawned certain ideals… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Religions, creeds and forms are only a characteristic outward sign of the spiritual impulsion and religion itself is the intensive action by… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Gardeners work with an ever-receding ideal of perfection; no sooner is something growing well than they see how to place it better… — Robin Lane Fox Copy Share Image
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all)… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
