The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
