Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The American people are doing their job today. They should be given a chance to show whether they wish to preserve the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
We need to reorganize our entire system of retirement plan investing and to develop federal standards of fiduciary duty for pension trustees… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Friends, if it matters to you, I think it is less important that we agree and more important that we learn to… — Annabel Park Copy Share Image
Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
Do we leave it to individuals to decide that they are the intelligent ones who should have more kids? And more troublesome,… — John Tanton Copy Share Image
Most fast-food workers can't easily join a union, because they don't work directly for their parent company, such as McDonald's or Subway.… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Where these reduced (operational - E.W.) concepts govern the analysis of the human reality, individual or social, mental or material, they arrive… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their… — Aaron Antonovsky Copy Share Image
People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a "right" attributed to "the people" refer to anything other than an individual right. What is… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Republicans also have to start to look at talent recruitment. Eight years ago Barack Obama was a no-name state senator. So I… — Andrea Tantaros Copy Share Image
Religion is organized, and spirituality is what the individual feels in his relationship with truth and with God. And although spirituality may… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
My biggest fear, that 27 percent of Americans under 65 have an existing health condition that, without the protections of the Affordable… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We must see ourselves in community with all other people at local, national and global levels. While this may seem superficially easy,… — Elisabet Sahtouris Copy Share Image
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.… — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Pictures are the idea in visual or pictorial form; and the idea has to be legible, both in the individual picture and… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the… — Rudolf Hoss Copy Share Image
When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I'm really interested not just in privacy for the individual but respect for the local communities. And I think we have a… — Ramesh Srinivasan Copy Share Image
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it… — James Dobson Copy Share Image