Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Adam Smith

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

Diane Ackerman

A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.

Jakob Bohme

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

Peter Singer

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Talib Kweli

If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.

Vinoba Bhave

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

William Petty

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song.

Jean Giraudoux

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

Ludwig von Mises

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

Ludwig von Mises

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Noam Chomsky

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Plato

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Robert Ludlum

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

Thomas Reid