John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Why I Am A Socialist (1884).
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Context: Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor; and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of that universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
“There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.”
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Abu Saíd Saád bin Malik bin Sinan Al-Khudri in The Sunnah and the Science of Hadith by Imam Yahia bin Sharaful-Deen An-Nawawi http://www.wisdom.edu.ph/Sunnah/3FortyHadith.html Hadith 32 <br class="br">Shi'ite Hadith
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more, nor less.”
Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass
Source: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
“One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.”
Nec alii obest aut prodest alterius religio.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
Ad Scapulam, 2.2
Donald Justice (1925–2004) Poet, teacher
Poem
Departures (1973)
Henri Poincaré (1854–1912) French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
La pensée ne doit jamais se soumettre, ni à un dogme, ni à un parti, ni à une passion, ni à un intérêt, ni à une idée préconçue, ni à quoi que ce soit, si ce n'est aux faits eux-mêmes, parce que, pour elle, se soumettre, ce serait cesser d'être.
Speech, University of Brussels (19 November 1909), during the festival for the 75th anniversary of the university's foundation; published in Œuvres de Henri Poincaré (1956), p. 152
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago