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freedom rights political
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). Ayn Rand
freedom music
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. Kate Bush
freedom sacrifice rights
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. Clarence Day
freedom atheism superstitions
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. Edmund Burke
freedom sacrifice men
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. Bruce Barton
freedom rights discovery
What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom? Edward Abbey
freedom possible true understand
We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity. Chris Butler
freedom future heard individual nation solidarity today
At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love). John Paul
freedom use automation
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. Anna C. Brackett
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. Augustus Hare
men thinking principles
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. Augustus Hare
compassion desire embrace individual moves scope self universal
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold Toynbee
compassion tears pieces
Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces. Jane Austen
compassion people abuse
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't. Brigid Brophy
compassion tolerance toleration
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke
compassion justice may
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. Ben Jonson
compassion order space
So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve. Dalai Lama
compassion concern-for-others giving
Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love. Dalai Lama
compassion tolerance way
Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Dalai Lama
compassion two mind
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act. There are two aspects to action. One is to overcome the distortions and afflictions of your own mind, that is, in terms of calming and eventually dispelling anger. This is action out of compassion. The other is more social, more public. When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefitting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. Dalai Lama