An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd… — George Edward Moore Copy Share Image
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Today science prevails not because of its comparative merits, but because the show has been rigged in its favour... It reigns supreme… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The first merit of pictures is the effect they produce on the mind; and the first step of a sensible man should… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory… — Kenichi Fukui Copy Share Image
The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Thinking can be lateral or "sweaty". For the latter you're better off in an office and following a routine but for the… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
“The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those… — William Law Copy Share Image
I happen to think most people go into government do it for the right reasons and they really do things as they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
I am a socialist and at the same time clear about a certain number of values ... family values, environmental values, the… — Segolene Royal Copy Share Image
We're not breaking the rules. We're bending them, that's all. You get your foot in the door. But after that you will… — Merlin Copy Share Image
Let us not... contend about merit , but let us all be intent on forwarding the common enterprize , and equally enjoy… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The grand solid merit of jury trial is that the jurors ... are selected at the last moment from the multitude of… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing.… — Dave Zirin Copy Share Image
It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise… — James Cook Copy Share Image
[We need] to choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn't that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image