Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When the Many are rulers, it cannot but be that, again, knavery is bred in the state; but now the knaves do… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever… — William Cabell Rives Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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