Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by... →
John Shelby Spong
I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If... →
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because... →
Lysander Spooner
The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my... →
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their... →
The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law... →
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of... →
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power... →