There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions. But there is no such thing as institutional conditions without any individual actions and no such thing as individual action without institutional conditions. So there is always personal responsibility.
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.
Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.
A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented to companies through public tender, with or without subsidies, and a rising share of profits beyond a negotiated upper limit should be deposited in the national capital fund.
Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
There is no love of life without despair of life.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
