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John Locke

Erich Fromm

Barack Obama

Pope Francis

Nikola Tesla

Jane Austen

Ramsey Clark

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

I have a sense of having just left without saying goodbye, and of this whole other world just kind of fading away. … I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

John Henry Newman

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence Lovasik

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

Lysander Spooner

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Walter Benjamin