An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

For me the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

The true spirit of delight the exaltation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Music is my life professionally for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which more than any other ministers to the human spirit.

I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.

Philosophy is the highest music.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The physician's highest calling his only calling is to make sick people healthy - to heal as it is termed.

It was the courts of course that took away prayer from our schools that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.