Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
It's like there's a pulsating, hidden world, governed by ancient laws and principles, underlying everything around us - from the movements of… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Very much of what we call the progress of today consists in getting rid of false ideas, false conceptions of things, and… — William D. Hoard Copy Share Image
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Efforts to revive the art principles of the past at best produce works of art that resemble a stillborn child. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Just as the policies and programmes for development have to adhere to the law of the land - respecting the basic principles… — Sanjaya Baru Copy Share Image
There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself... — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
