I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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RICHARD MITCHELL I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. DESMOND MORRIS I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape DESMOND MORRIS My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of ... MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK The real reason [for] coming to Montour is my love and respect for football. DICK BUTKUS The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football. DICK BUTKUS In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intenti... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n... PETER ABRAHAMS i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i... 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I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto... SYLVIA PLATH To question reason is to trust it. MITCH STOKES Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Ber... ZAKK WYLDE The only reason I don't want to commit adultery is because I love my wife and I love my lord. JOSEPH PRINCE Continuing a short series on education: What are the gifts of biblical faith to the secular univ... GEORGE A. BUTTRICK I believe the true measure of a man is not what my boss, associatesor friends think or say about me.... ZACHARIAH B NOTTER If you remove Al Sharpton’s blackness, he disappears. He’s transparent. There’s nothing there ... KEN HUTCHERSON To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you can't put a price tag on that... CHRIS GREEN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS “I believe the true measure of a man is not what my boss, friends, family or any person thinks, ju... ZACHARIAH B NOTTER Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know. MOLIèRE I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father. RICHARD LLEWELLYN If there is no higher reason--and there is none--then my own reason must be the supreme judge of my ... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he ... CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And,... BARUCH SPINOZA PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake bu... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was... PAULO COELHO Ah, much deluded! lay aside Thy threats, and anger misapplied! Art not afraid with sounds ... JOHN MILTON A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the forc... ROBERT EMMET His companion said to him while disputing with him: Do you disbelieve in Him Who created you from du... QURAN I reason everything out, and usually analyze my tastes too well to succumb to them blindly. And that... GUY DE MAUPASSANT The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the ... MAAJID NAWAZ I enjoy the love I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is real for me and ... AAMIR KHAN The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this worl... ALEX CAMPBELL I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man. THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Then it kissed me—not as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a... BARBARA T. CERNY I love you, Dominique. As selfishly as the fact that I exist. As selfishly as my lungs breathe air. ... AYN RAND Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or f... MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate ... C.S. LEWIS My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an... SONIA SOTOMAYOR My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not ack... BHARATI MUKHERJEE My first love is film, always. I wanted to be an actor. That was my dream as a young man, JOE SIMPSON The reason I am single is that I gave my all to people who are not giving me a chance. DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brot... ROBERT MACCOLL ADAMS Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform... JACK HENRY ABBOTT Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform... 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MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block. MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con... MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything... MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei... MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse... MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any... MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ... MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a... MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ... MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera... MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow... MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe... MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn... MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu... MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning. MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when. MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.' MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no... MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met. MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w... MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n... MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and... MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p... MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew... MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha... MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ... MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air... MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye... MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time. MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ... MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O... MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that... MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven. MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan... MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J... MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we... MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR