The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
There was no "before" the beginning of our universe because once upon a time there was no time.
The greater the state the more wrong and cruel its patriotism and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden a dim twilight and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor' it's crucial to say that.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others who are late to develop it just enables them to finish the job.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions and see what they would be at as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant practice it first upon yourself.
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Pray in your family daily that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.
It's weird I never wish anything bad upon anybody except two or three old girlfriends.
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.
In most places in the country voting is looked upon as a right and a duty but in Chicago it's a sport.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Death borders upon our birth and our cradle stands in the grave.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is love can flourish.