The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population. — Wendy Craig Copy Share Image
I have played in the West for 14 years. I played against Dustin Byfuglien a lot. So it's not like I've been… — Chris Pronger Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy,… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He… — John Keats Copy Share Image
The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I understand that my son loves me and I love him, and everything just really got blown out of proportion, and I'm… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Hardly any famine affects more than 5 percent, almost never more than 10 percent, of the population. The largest proportion of a… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness… — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image