By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would never behave with so little dignity. Nor would I wish to be confronted in such a manner by anyone else.… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are… — Randolph Scott Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
Humor keeps the elderly rolling along, singing a song. When you laugh, its an involuntary explosion of the lungs. The lungs need… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image