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- The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of…
- Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on…
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
- Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,…
- There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
- The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon…
- Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
- It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and…
- When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
- The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
- Among the laws controlling human societies there is one more precise and clearer, it seems to me, than all the others. If men are to…
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- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
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