Quotes 421 till 440 of 1159.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
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Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.
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Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
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It costs more to revenge than to bear with injuries.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
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It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
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