I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
And when you tell me that somebody's skin color or gender is going to determine their prospects in this world, that is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who… — Elton John Copy Share Image
In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the… — Konstantin Pobedonostsev Copy Share Image
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new… — Fritz Zwicky Copy Share Image
I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible.… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Hitherto without being; hidden away in the womb of eternity; possessed neither of thought nor feeling; remote from the range of human… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
The Freedom which Christianity gives, is a Freedom from the Bondage of Sin and Satan, and from the Domination of Men's Lusts… — Edmund Gibson Copy Share Image
We are foolish to expect to serve God without opposition: the more zealous we are, the more sure are we to be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or shrug! How many good and generous… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman –… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Men today cannot claim their identity via culture because they are obliged to find other uninitiated males as their models or succumb… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are… — John Hallock Jr Copy Share Image
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You told me you believed marriage was for other people." "You're the only man who could make me believe that it's for… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
[On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Although I'd joined Fleet Street years after the liquid lunch fell out of favour, I was immediately struck by how damn hard… — Cathy Newman Copy Share Image
Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image