The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future)… — Susan Sontag 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
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
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
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more… — Miguel Angel Ruiz 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
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
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
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
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our religion is one which challenges the ordinary human standards by holding that the ideal of life is the spirit of a… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect… — Greg Hicks Copy Share Image
However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
As long as I'm dealing in honesty, I may as well admit that I have been more influenced (as a person) by… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might be when… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions,… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
The Constitution of India seeks to guarantee respect for the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the integrity of… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“At that moment, he realised that he did not exist to her in the same way that he existed in his own… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
The New Hampshire girls who came to Lowell were descendants of the sturdy backwoodsmen who settled that State scarcely a hundred years… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
An ideal movie would be, like - to get this to happen, I have to work so much harder - but imagine… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
A sharp difference should exist between general education and specialized knowledge. As particularly today the latter threatens more and more to sink… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
