It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only… — Adam Young Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is the American people have lost trust and confidence in the people they have sent up… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and… — Martha Barnett Copy Share Image
The International Criminal Court, like most international institutions, is a wonderful idea. A noble idea. All it needs to work is planetary… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
...democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Now, everybody always says there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in win, because the individuals make the team… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed… — Jeremiah Jenks Copy Share Image
Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A book is maybe about 350 pages, and the prose allows for readers to get a glimpse into the internal lives of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and… — Michael Lang Copy Share Image
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day… — William James Copy Share Image
For it is not cell nuclei, not even individual chromosomes, but certain parts of certain chromosomes from certain cells that must be… — Theodor Boveri Copy Share Image
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I've realized that a lot of people come to me because of what's called identity. In the sense of "he's like me"… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
If the Bill of Rights was intended to place strict limits on federal power and protect individual and locality from the national… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
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