Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I believe that one can and must hope for a sane society that furthers man's capacity to love his fellow men, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God… — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I declare and I challenge all mankind to contradict my declaration, that no man can give any account of the order of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
We live in a society in the West, where, when men do violent things, they do them under orders. They are soldiers… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The movie studios, they only like to make - I make a joke, but it's true - if the movie has the… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent &… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The right to live does not connote the right of each man to reproduce his kind ... As we lessen the stringency… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or something to do for lack of something better. The whole… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us under solitude, and keep us from being a… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Everything we men do, everything we men have done for the past 100,000 years, is all about attracting a mate. When a… — Oliver Markus Malloy Copy Share Image
“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image