The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its particular members and with private well-being, that thus the interests of family and civil society must concentrate themselves on the state. It is only when both these moments subsist in their strength that the state can be regarded as articulated and genuinely organized.

...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Elizabeth Gould Davis, The First

He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.

Fred A. Allen

Never despair, keep pushing on!

Sir Thomas Lipton

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

Toby Young

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Herbert Read

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

Epictetus

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

David Tyson Gentry

You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.

Daisy Fuentes

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Alan Lampkin

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Christopher Hitchens

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

Pope John Paul II