No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind.… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud. — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Be reflective...and stay away from the theater as much as you can. Stay out of the theatrical world, out of its petty… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then to do so in a way that's… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
When a patient does get an organ from another person, it comes from a different body. It has different properties, and a… — Anthony Atala Copy Share Image
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
