Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Joe Clark

I think it is too simple to suggest that it's simply Mr. Harper's fault.

Darius Kasparaitis

We have to be more gritty, more hitting. We probably have to play much simpler hockey.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard John Neuhaus

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

Richard Hofstadter

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Shenstone

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

John Locke

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

David Brooks

There is a virtue in shamelessness.