Will Durant Quotes
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nature can do more than physicians.
-
Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.
-
In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
-
Let my enemies devour each other.
-
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
-
It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
-
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
-
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
-
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
-
Freedom is living without chains.
-
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
-
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
-
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
-
I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.
-
If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.
-
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
-
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
-
Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
-
Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
-
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
-
The response you get when you're young like "oh you're just getting laughs because you're a little kid and you're cute". They weren't trying to encourage me at all or tell me to keep pursuing this.
-
I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
-
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
-
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
