The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Second, they [those who disagree with market efficiency] always claim they know a man, a bank, or a fund that does do… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or… — Arlene Dickinson 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 had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We live in an age rather skeptical of truth, of its existence." There is a "tendency to believe that nothing is definitive,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Everybody has same or the other weakness. This eis also a a general tendency to conceal theee weaknesses. For people may not… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If one's interest is not in some global question about the possibility of knowledge, but about some particular mechanism or inferential tendency,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
We now have cultural machines so powerful that one singer can reach everybody in the world, and make all the other singers… — Alan Lomax Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking -… — Harold Ford, Jr Copy Share Image
Worrying won't prevent the worst outcome. I've learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I've always thought… — Tracy Pollan Copy Share Image
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by… — David Cone Copy Share Image
Its the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The… — Eva Fuka Copy Share Image
Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics,… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I was 17 when it was being filmed and so I was at an age where you are learning a lot about… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There is a tendency just to talk about foreign investors. Over 80 per cent of new investment in the South African economy… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image