To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
I'm still committed to the socialist idea because the socialist idea, correctly understood, includes the principles of freedom and social justice. It… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
“The world was ready for greater discoveries two thousand years ago. (Heron of Alexandria is an excellent example of an inventor who… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is not impossible, of course, after such an administration as Roosevelt's and after the change in method that I could not… — William Howard Taft 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
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
A crucial difference between lite libertarians and the right kind is that to the former, the idea of liberty is propositional -… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of… — James Mill Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it,… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
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