Therefore Quotes
4218 quotes by 2376 authors
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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's…
— Elizabeth Drew
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
— Albert Camus
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
— Lord Acton
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe…
— Winston Churchill
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I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.…
— Norman Cousins
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
— Samuel Johnson
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No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond…
— Samuel Johnson
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Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway…
— Felix Frankfurter
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat…
— Isaiah Berlin
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It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights.…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside…
— Jean Cocteau
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does this statement seem severe? The…
— Ellen G. White
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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person…
— Abraham Maslow
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Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose…
— T. Harv Eker
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