In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to… — Kevin Martin Copy Share Image
Once one has realized, following the great English literary visionaries William Shakespeare and Thomas Nashe, that sexual puritanism, political disciplinarianism, and abuse… — John Milbank Copy Share Image
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death:… — Rose George Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be'… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
And so on, until you arrive at the other side, among the purely abstract self-harming: the grinding over your failures, the refusal… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
Socrates was the chief saint of the Stoics throughout their history ; his attitude at the time of his trial, his refusal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In a society where the roles everyone plays are obvious, the refusal to conform to any standard will excite interest. Be both… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“sodoyouthinkyoucouldtrustmetogotothedancetonight?" she blurted before losing her nerve. Viktor and Viveka exchanged a quick glance. Are they considering it? They are! They trust… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
