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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

We took the name 'Liberal' because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments, in no sense reactionary but believing in… — Robert Menzies
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing… — Shelby Steele
Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker
All rights are individual. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it's homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray.… — Ron Paul
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors… — Alan Keyes
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name… — Mary Wollstonecraft
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American… — Barack Obama
Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation… — Abraham Lincoln
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. — Thomas Sankara
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… — Milton Friedman
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life. — Louis Cozolino
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run… — Henry Ford
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as… — Immanuel Wallerstein
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they… — Immanuel Wallerstein
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from… — Eric Hoffer
The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… — Jeannette Rankin
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. — Pope John XXIII
The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind. — Pope John Paul II
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. — Vaclav Havel
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet… — John Foley

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