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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

Actions - Choice - Force - Judging - Man - Novel - People - Philosophy - Thinking - Wants

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that we none of us know all truth, that the discovery of new truth is promoted by free discussion and rendered very difficult by suppression.

Dependence - Difficulty

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Benito Mussolini

Former Prime Minister of Italy

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

Actions - Countries - Economy - Education - Fascism - Feelings - Meaning - Politics - State

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William Wordsworth

Poet

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Actions - Good

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer, Political Activist

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

Value

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Value

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Actions - Activity - Caprice - Design - Expectation - Imagination - Persistence - Value - Virtue

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Blessing - Boy - Children - Enlightenment - Girl - Glory - Heathen - Holiness - Making - Nations - Value - Whole - Yielding

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Certainty - Chance - Dependence - Expectation - Future - Loss - Power - Time - Uncertainty

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

Actions - Conscience - Creating - Expose - Human - Injustice - Medicine - Opinion - Ugly

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Rajneesh

Guru

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Creativity - Dependence - Giving - Help - Meditation - Songs

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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

Actions - Difficulty - Exploration - Family - Friendship - Giving - Movement

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Marcus Aurelius

Former Roman Emperor

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Value

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Altruism - Dictatorship - Existence - Individualism - Man - Morals - Oneself - Sacrifice - Value - Virtue

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

Actions - Dependence - Election - Grace - Human - Injustice - Man - Purpose - Sin - Waiting - Whole - Willing

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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

Accept - Lie - Man - Passion - Pursuit - Value

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Chemist, Inventor

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs).

Chemistry - Property - Value

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