It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What is the most effective, practical way of raising the wealth of nations? What causes wealth? I have come to think that… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Living creatures possess a moving soul and a certain spiritual superiority which in this respect make them similar to those who possess… — Nahmanides Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God,… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Apart from any other basis which might justify a superiority, education, as a power, raised him who possessed it over the weak,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali,… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
All political movements are like this - we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Two decades ago, however, socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Men justify the women taking care of the kids and the house and holding down a job because, after all, men are… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
“A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It… — Allan G. Johnson Copy Share Image
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mere size of the brain has been proved to be no measure of superiority. The woman has greater moral courage than… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!'… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
A dog gladly admits the superiority of his master over himself, accepts his judgment as final, but, contrary to what dog-lovers believe,… — Axel Munthe Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The idle wife ranked with the ornamentally wrought weapon and with the splendid offering to the gods as a measure of the… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much… — William James Copy Share Image
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