It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea… — Tony D'Souza Copy Share Image
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred… — Marilou Awiakta Copy Share Image
Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really -… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The Latin American has no tribe to fall back on, as the African does, no reliable judiciary to defend his rights as… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality.… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
I think a Person who is thus terrified with the Imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We have made covenants so to do solemn, sacred, holy covenants, pledging ourselves before gods and angels. We are under covenant to… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world… — Xavier Rudd Copy Share Image
A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
Meditation should not be a thing apart from life; it should be amidst life, it should be a part of life an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever… — John Eric Erichsen Copy Share Image
Self-respect is often mistaken for arrogance when in reality it is the opposite. When we can recognize all our good qualities as… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
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