A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I still believe that, in the long run, the aggregate of the decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I do think that the idea of writer's block can be very self-defeating for most writers because it's taking a lot of… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot… — Westbrook Pegler Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Most people are shaped to the form of their culture because of the enormous malleability of their original endowment. They are plastic… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather… — Alexander Lernet-Holenia Copy Share Image
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every truth ever discovered -- each new light that will ever burn bright -- already exists in our consciousness. All we will… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
It is the masculine dynamic that has caused our society to place money and corporate profit above human beings. It has allowed… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first… — Angela McGlowan Copy Share Image
In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline,… — Ruth Behar Copy Share Image
When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes… — Barrows Dunham Copy Share Image
I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace… — Leilani Bishop Copy Share Image
“There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
