People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
…the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers.… — Patricio Aylwin Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Just as an earthly garden needs constant attention, so, too, does our spiritual garden. When we first begin our journey of spirituality… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning,… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
Neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with equal protection when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities .… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of… — Elsie Clews Parsons Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[C]ultivated risk-taking represents an 'experiment with trust' (in the sense of basic trust) which consequently has implications for an individual's self-identity. (...)… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day.… — Lesley Boone Copy Share Image
Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don't go in much for the structured approach to career progression.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We have to consider culture respectfully, but on the other hand, it's dangerous. When we begin talking about cultures, we begin forgetting… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
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