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Lysander Spooner Quotes

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

Lysander Spooner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887

Topics

Men Effort Enough Selfishness Moral

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Jim Evans

Work Summer Him Carpenter Playing

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

Joanne Whalley

Decision Saying Remember Down Want

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Travis Bradberry

Leader Integrity Responsibility Catch

It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

Tom Odell

Love Music Me World Rest American

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Michael Showalter

Funny Writing Book Think Brand Name

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Good Future Time Good And Evil Evil

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Douglas Alexander

Way Borrowing Taxation Approach Set

I'm the world number one, so everyone is trying to attack me and trying to speed up.

Chen Long

Me World Speed Trying Everyone Up

The one source of criticism even the most repressive authoritarian leader cannot silence is the outside world. Autocrats are usually thin-skinned and like to be admired, so at least, at first, they often seek to be praised abroad.

Chrystia Freeland

Leader Silence World Criticism First

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

Bono

World Complicated Get Religious Too

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Alfred Hershey

Words Language Better Mine Than He

It has to be about more than punishment. We need to rehabilitate people. We lock up far too many people in America today. We lock them up as if locking them up is gonna solve the problem. And locking them up does not solve the problem. Did locking me up make me better? No, it did not. It made my struggle harder.

Susan Burton

Today Struggle People Me Better