Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Douglas Hofstadter

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

Allen Ginsberg

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Allan Bloom

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

Andrea Dworkin

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Albert Pike

There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the very essence of, that sublime system which gives the venerable institution its peculiar identity as a science of morality, and it behooves every disciple diligently to ponder and inwardly digest.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

Dalai Lama

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Deepak Chopra

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

Ann Landers

Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.

Andy Garcia

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Andrew Solomon

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Victor Hugo

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Richard Dawkins

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.