Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely… — Eisaku Sato Copy Share Image
I haven't had a drink for 24 and a half years, so I don't live the kind of life anymore where I… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but… — Richard Berry Copy Share Image
Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the individuals who make up a group have personal egos, and their identities lie in these egos, then their egoic identities… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Is it all right for the government to allow the murder of an innocent human being? From the moment of conception, a… — Kathy Ireland Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
As a matter of ethics - our broader social life needs to be constrained by law and other devices - resolving at… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I think in all of the arts there are just certain people that have a gift. I think it's a certain spirituality,… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The money in the stabilization fund, $130 billion which I call an insurance bailout, is put in to try to cure the… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about… — Hazel Rochman Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you're part of any kind of writerly community, some of those people will have gone through MFA programs, and their thinking… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The hours spent viewing TV are hours not available for actively participating in the real world, or playing, or being involved with… — Louise Hart Copy Share Image
It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
