Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Let others mock at you, oppose you, when you are under the influence of any passion; do not be in the least… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage,… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know -… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
All we want, those few of us who have the strength to realize what's going on, is the freedom to create and… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
They offer me neither food nor drink - intellectual nor spiritual consolation... [Conservatism] leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal; it conforms to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much,… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution… — William H. Pryor, Jr Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You do wrong to complain of your crosses and sufferings. Believe me, you know not what it is to suffer. God preserve… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
