John Quotes

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

Trade is a social act.

Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like man not more unnatural than most of the virtues.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.

Tis love in love that makes the sport.

Mitt Romney has made it clear that he believes that President Obama was born in the U.S.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish!

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

I'm running for senator because it's time for a change.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world.

The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world.

We'll always have bureaucracies, but bureaucracies led by bureaucrats might be too much of a bad thing.

Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.

I’ll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

I was always drawn to music. It consumed my thoughts and when I realized I could make people feel something through music that is all I wanted to do.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

In practice a photographer does not concern himself with philosophical issues while working; he makes photographs, working with subject matter that he thinks will make the pictures.

Most of Tina Modotti's work that is known to the photography world was done in Mexico in the years 1923 through 1926, when she lived and worked with Edward Weston.

But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

If we take good care of one another, God will take care of us.

A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature.

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity.

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.

We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system

Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.

Curiosity has no important place in my work, only conformity.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.