The justification for those actions was that we were living in a very hard, predatory, cloak-and-dagger world and that the only way… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
“Now the valley cried with anger, "Mount your horses draw your sword." And they killed the mountain people, so they won their… — Dennis Lambert Copy Share Image
There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant… — John Von Neumann Copy Share Image
“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I am pleased as punch no longer to believe in a god who declares reason a sin, who will not choose many… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
And just as there are no crimes so detestable that they can prevent the gift of grace, so too there can be… — Prosper of Aquitaine Copy Share Image
We hear a lot about theological justifications for the conflicts, but very little about the scientific evidence, which in no way supports… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“Once you understand how first-century Jewish covenant theology actually works, you will see that law-court language, 'participation' language, and a great deal… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others. Everyone's sense of virtue is degraded by… — William Greider Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The velocity of light is one of the most important of the fundamental constants of Nature. Its measurement by Foucault and Fizeau… — A.A. Michelson Copy Share Image
When you invade Grenada, or when you invade Panama to capture a disreputable person, or when you bomb the Bosnia area, you… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image