The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.
People are never so likely to be wrong as when they are organized. And they never have so little freedom. Perhaps that is why the people at large keep their freedom. People can be manipulated only when they are organized.
My family is very large. 42 million.
I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. I’m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable.
In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.
Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.
The Perkins Bar has always demonstrated a commitment to the community and excelled in service not only to the minority community, but to the community at large.
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.
Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the solution.
I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another angle. . . it's something that I chose.
In spite of conflicting signals - and in spite of a popular culture that sometimes puts down their innocence - most of our kids are good kids. Large numbers do volunteer work. Nearly all believe in God, and most practice their faith. Teen pregnancy and violence are actually going down. Across America, under a program called True Love Waits, nearly a million teens have pledged themselves to abstain from sex until marriage.
So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition. . . Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.