If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
People are combining traditions like never before and finding somehow a fundamental unity for this human race of ours. I think working… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A constitutional tradition that works is one that is in a constant state of dynamic evolution. You have a written constitution that… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The problem is that those of us who were born into Islam and who don't want to live according to scripture -… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible -… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama ] says Western traditions can teach Tibetans a lot about social action, and he thinks some Christians are very… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
India and Italy have a lot in common, especially the tradition of luxury. — Marco Bizzarri Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I would like people to feel that they've understood something more about Siena than the usual Palio as seen by tourists. It… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The philosophy of individualism owes a great deal to the tradition of novel-writing and novel-reading. In its development and in its aesthetics,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image