“I am for the artist, who is more alone than he looks. I am not for the reformer, who is always active… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one… — Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the… — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I believe that any individual who has spiritually awakened in our time, to the degree that he or she finds a higher… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
If you are a cooperative animal you need to watch what you get. If you, or even a whole community, invest in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The gigantic challenge is the magnitude of the individual differences in the optimal set point for "good stress." For one person, it's… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my… — Ronaldinho Copy Share Image
The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment… — Bernie Glassman Copy Share Image
There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Football can teach us that although a team's individual players may be weak, it can still be successful if it uses common… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm 67 years old now. I've had a lot of good teachers over the years; and they have been very, very different… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Nature and animals, especially living with them for as long as I have - gives you the gift of yourself, gives you… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
