Therefore Quotes
4218 Therefore quotes by 2275 unique authors
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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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Mr. Russell is a great believer in versatility in all creative work. In any physical work he believes one can work many hours at a…
— Walter Russell
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The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the…
— Leonard Peikoff
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore…
— Murray Rothbard
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Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right…
— Walter E. Williams
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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
— Donald James
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At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,…
— Robert Kennedy
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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration…
— Woodrow Wilson
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A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our…
— Seneca the Younger
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