It is not enough to say, 'We are Muslims and have an ideology or our own': we must also be in a… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men.… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate… — William E. Kennard Copy Share Image
As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside… — Kirsten Olson Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Selling your life to sit in a box and work for a machine. An uncaring machine that demands productivity that doesn't understand… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Women have innate talents and exceptional abilities that go unnoticed by our society, and that women themselves often do not fully appreciate.… — Laurie Cabot Copy Share Image
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . .… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
There are very few people in our society who are actually free to say what they believe. I am in an extremely… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image