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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to be. Therefore, individual… — Bill O'Reilly
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;… — Wendell Phillips
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is… — William J. Brennan
The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized… — Russell M. Nelson
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come… — Victor Hugo
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we… — Walter Lippmann
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is to… — Arthur Curley
If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe… — George H. W. Bush
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and… — Ronald Reagan
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of… — Gore Vidal
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals… — Keith Preston
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name… — Jonathan D. Morris
Every individual's purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived… — Mark Victor Hansen
Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more… — Stephen Hawking
The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual duty… — Tony Blair
The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered — Gordon Brown
The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen… — Tony Blair
Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation — Francis Fukuyama
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,… — Richard Dawkins
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his… — Gordon Brown
The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among… — Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was already $170,000 in… — John Stossel
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term… — James Madison

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