The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of… — Matt Blaze Copy Share Image
Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia should be commended for acknowledging that his views are so strong that - should the Pledge case… — Michael Newdow Copy Share Image
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better! — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finish line ;) — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I don't want water!" Sarah cries, her face buried against my chest. I can't see what's going on in the rest of… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Today we cannot assume people, even all Christians, understand the Bible's implicit, underlying view of reality. We have to dig it out… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view.… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
“ Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.” — James E. Crimmins Copy Share Image