Ideas Quotes

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The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to… — Harry Browne
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right… — Alan Dershowitz
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty… — John Dewey
The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites… — William O. Douglas
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged. — William O. Douglas
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it;… — Dennis Weaver
The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and… — H. L. Mencken
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the… — Robertson Davies
What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's… — Oprah Winfrey
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth… — Richard Bach
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by… — Barbara Cartland
The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them. — Bill Maher
In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that… — Sigmund Freud
Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done. — Anton Chekhov
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by… — Lin Yutang
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be. — J. Paul Getty
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change… — Wallace D. Wattles
The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't… — Russell Simmons
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share… — T. Harv Eker
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. — Nikola Tesla
The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law. — Michael Badnarik
"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in… — T. Harv Eker
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change;… — Carlos Castaneda

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