When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
From self-knowledge flows the stream of humility, which never seizes on mere report, nor takes offense at anything, but bears every insult,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes. — Lucien Febvre Copy Share Image
For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
There were only 170 neurologists in Britain then and, whether spoken or unspoken, there was this insidious feeling. How can Bannister, a… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
Civilization, stretching up to recognize that every child is a portion of State wealth, may presently make some movement to recognize maternity… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
