No one really wants to follow you per se. They really don’t. They want to know that, by following you, they are… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my… — Ed Parker Copy Share Image
“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with… — Steve Case 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
God’s purpose is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”2 That is fundamental to all we do. Sometimes… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One… — Georg Hermes Copy Share Image
The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The secret principle of martial arts is not vanquishing the attacker, but resolving to avoid an encounter before its occurrence. To become… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
George W. Bush - who I'm sure that a lot of people, when I say this, will not be happy about it… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
What a mathematical proof actually does is show that certain conclusions, such as the irrationality of , follow from certain premises, such… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist. Are its allegations concerning the present system true?… — John Bates Clark Copy Share Image
I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
But the basic principle that we’re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image