Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's was a real universalism in intent. Laissez Faire was intended to establish a world community as well as a natural… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--are in fact social, religious,… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is what you probably already believe: Libertarian values are American values. Libertarianism is America's heritage of liberty, patriotism and honest work… — David Bergland Copy Share Image
Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold,… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I think that there's a sense of self-reliance that exists in skateboarding that kids can take to their daily lives. I think… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Approval is a greater motivator than disapproval, but we have to disapprove on occasion when we correct. It’s necessary. I make corrections… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
The purpose of life seems to be to acquaint a man with himself and whatever science or art or course of action… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I'm not a big dreamer. I never have been.The only thing I've sort of obviously extracted from the research of dreams is… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
People have presuppositions... By 'presuppositions' we mean the basic way that an individual looks at life- his worldview. The grid through which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you… — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
