When any welfare scheme is being proposed, its political sponsors always dwell on what a generous and compassionate government should pay to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth.… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems… — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
My staff has been working on structural fixes to equitably help disadvantaged areas - left wanting after decades of neglect - to… — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
“I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the Gospel on the street corners and at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
If you're eating poorly, neglecting your health, or living a high-stress lifestyle, you're depleting your inner resources. That will make it difficult… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything… — Madhuri Dixit Copy Share Image
This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image