The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived… — John Milton Copy Share Image
An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes my courage fails me and I think I ought to stop working, live in the country and devote myself to gardening.… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Worship without wonder is lifeless and boring. Many have lost their sense of awe and amazement when it comes to God. Having… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and… — Ezekiel Hopkins Copy Share Image
I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We have huge national security issues in this country, and the United States Senate ought to be pushing President [Barack] Obama towards… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals.… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The business of banking ought to be simple. If it is hard it is wrong. The only securities which a banker, using… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image