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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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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

In most ages many countries have had part of their inhabitants in a state of slavery; yet it may be doubted whether slavery can ever be supposed the natural condition of man. It is impossible not to conceive that men in their original state were equal; and very difficult to imagine how one would be subjected to another but by violent compulsion. An individual may, indeed, forfeit his liberty by a crime; but he cannot by that crime forfeit the liberty of his children.

Age - Children - Conditioning - Countries - Crime - Difficulty - Doubt - Equality - Imagination - Impossible - Individual - Liberty - Man - Original - Slavery - State - Violence

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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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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe a liar or charlatan could have had the effect on mankind that he has had for 2000 years. We could ask, would even the greatest of liars carry his lie through the crucifixion, when a simple confession would have saved him? ... Did he allow us the choice... to believe in his teaching but reject his statements about his own identity?

Belief - Choice - Effectiveness - Lie - Reject

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Hippocrates

Writer, Scientist, Greek physician

Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

Age - Constitution - Eating - Effectiveness - Enough - Exercise - Fall - Giving - Home - Human - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Seasons - Sickness

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Aspiration - Intention - Possibility - Soulmate - Wants - Wishing

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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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John Stuart Mill

Philosopher, Political Economist, Civil Servant

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

Actions - Dependence - Value

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poet, Poet Laureate of the U.K.

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

Inspiration - Motivation - Possibility - Shy - Wisdom

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Thomas Aquinas

Friar, Philosopher, Priest, Theologian

Anger and the like are attributed to God on account of a similitude of effect. Thus, because to punish is properly the act of an angry man, God's punishment is metaphorically spoken of as His anger.

Accounting - Anger - Effectiveness - Man

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Effectiveness - Morals

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

Actions

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

Actions - Citizenry - Espionage - Humility - Incapacity - Man - Meaning - Mistrust - People - Revolution - Spirits - War

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Facts - Making - Mastering - Philosophy - Pleasure - Possibility - Simple - Truth

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.

Ability - Actions - Consciousness - Listening

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.

Actions - Animals - Effectiveness - Machine - Production

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