I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
I just think that we're all trying to make ourselves emaciated, in order to pretend that we're all disappearing, as we move… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a moral and constitutional equivalence between laws designed to subjugate a race and those that distribute benefits… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a' une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Kafka's writings often display an insidious power to describe a wholly secular and "factical" world in which the eerie or "unheimlich" elements… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… — Hamid Dabashi Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every… — Roald Amundsen Copy Share Image
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor.… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image