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
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
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
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
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
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
Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting… — Warren Spector Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock… — Kamisese Mara Copy Share Image
People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They… — David Price Copy Share Image
The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians,… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in… — Sean Duffy Copy Share Image
When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Where God and man are in relationship, this must be the ideal. God must be the communicator, and man must be in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
For me, the goal is always to write a novel that I myself would like to read. People frequently ask me what… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is the West that has liberated women, racial minorities, religious minorities, and gays and lesbians, recognizing and defending their rights. The… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible,… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
On Memorial Day we come together as Americans to let these families and veterans know that they are not alone. We give… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But I would emphasize again that social and economic solutions, as such, will not avail to satisfy the aspirations of the people… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image