The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot… — Carl Eckart Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is… — William Torrey Harris Copy Share Image
People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Does not a man physically tremble under the mere look of a wild beast or fellow-man that is stronger than himself? Does… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs.… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Spiritual superiority only sees the individual. But alas, ordinarily we human beings are sensual and, therefore, as soon as it is a… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
One concern I had while I was working actively in the intelligence community - being someone who had broad access, who was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
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eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters… — George Ade Copy Share Image
I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were survived by… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the… — Greg Walden Copy Share Image
One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
True testimonies bring the light of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ into our lives and focus all of us toward the… — Donald L. Staheli Copy Share Image
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
I say as long as the individual stays creative and continues to come up with fresh new and exciting ideas, rap will… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Words like 'freedom', 'justice' and 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life.… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to… — Almeida Garrett Copy Share Image
As trans advocacy has institutionalized and developed, the context of the undemocratic nature of US non-profits and the ways that white, wealthy… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen.… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
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