If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
By a kind of happy pre-established harmony, such as a later age discovered between the needs of society and the self-interest of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
How can creativity be bad? You can have, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," but, in the end, it's an… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
For themost of us, if we donot talkof ourselves, orat any rate of the individual circles of which we are the centres,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
God is not just saving individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather, He is creating a people among whom He can live… — Gordon Fee Copy Share Image
Gingrich first backed the concept in 1993, “I am for people, individuals — exactly like automobile insurance — individuals having health insurance… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image