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"The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes." »Dugald Stewart
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"The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty." »Samuel Butler
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason." »Henry Christopher Bailey
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"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." »Joseph Addison
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"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." »William James
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household." »George Frost Kennan
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"I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat" »Will Rogers
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"I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike." »Joseph Addison
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"Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms." »Mark Twain
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"College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." »H. L. Mencken
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"Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon
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"If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it." »Paul Fussell
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"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!" »William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
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"What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god" »William Shakespeare
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives." »Calvin Trillin
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"Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders." »Oscar W. Firkins
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill
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"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant." »John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
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"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." »Pope John Paul II
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"[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." »Mark Twain
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"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." »Albert Einstein
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"A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member." »Johathan Edwards
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"... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ... before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe." »James Madison
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"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones." »Stephen Covey
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