Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do… — Bryan Adams Copy Share Image
Another merit of home is that it preserves the diversity between individuals. If we were all alike, it might be convenient for… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to… — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done.… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with… — Euripides Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Merit Karma (punya) has made one wander in the worldly life. Merit Karma brings together sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), from which… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Let every nation, right now, do what is best for all citizens of the world: eliminate every form of intervention that would… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
“He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?" She shrugged. "You know-old. Grizzled. Long white beard. Scruffy… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God… — Richard Jordan Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a little respect, but many don't realize that real respect is something that is earned, and something that should not… — Subhan Fazal Copy Share Image
For some people, every door opens, and they meet just who they need to meet when they need to meet them, all… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
“Please stop calling me that. You’re still officially the Master.” “Oh, I know,” Malik said. “But much like Merit, I find it… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Faith-healing is peculiar enough at the best of times, but applying it to football merits a special league of barking. Why would… — Mark Steel Copy Share Image
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person)… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Companies who have been able to groom CEOs internally have done significantly better. We came to the conclusion that the quality of… — Jorma Ollila Copy Share Image
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
“He humphed and grabbed a carton of milk, then chugged directly from the cardboard spout. Mallory and I watched him, the same… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Success and social promotion are not some right that anybody can claim after queuing at some [government office]. It is better: it… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to… — Keith K. Hilbig Copy Share Image
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue.… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
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