Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

David Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

David Hume

When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.

David Hume

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

David Hume

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

David Hume

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

David Hume

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

David Hume

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

David Hume

The law always limits every power it gives.

Charles Caleb Colton

The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

Charles Spurgeon

Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.

August Bebel

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Kurt Vonnegut

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

Charles Bradlaugh

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

Charles Bradlaugh

There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.

Charles Bradlaugh

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

Charles Bradlaugh

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

David Tudor

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.

William Jennings Bryan

Principles are eternal...

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Charles Koch

I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.

Bill Jenkins

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

Harry Aleman

They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!

John Dollar

There were things that we did were taught because of the biblical principles.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.