The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
It's time for us to review the circumstances under which corporations gain rights superior to that of individuals in our society. It's… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The idea that each individual has intrinsic, God-given value and is of infinite worth quite apart from any social contribution - an… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide… — John Tilbury Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
“The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently… — Theodore J. Kaczynski Copy Share Image
But ... the working scientist ... is not consciously following any prescribed course of action, but feels complete freedom to utilize any… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention,… — Cecil O. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Family is a difficult matter. I must admit I do not know that the state can intervene successfully in a family. It's… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural that… — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you're talking with. Most… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I never really sounded like Bird, but that was my mission. I didn't care if people said that I copied him; I… — Jackie McLean Copy Share Image
One way we exercise political freedom is to vote for the candidate of our choice. Another way is to use our money… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk… — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Copy Share Image
Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On… — Masao Abe Copy Share Image
Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion.… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would… — Joseph C. Rost Copy Share Image
Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image