#matter

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#god #individual #individuation #matter #principal

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#appeal #become #domestic #dubious #gained

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#between #concern #dealing #fantasy #freaky

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. ↗

— Julian Assange

#civilization #classified #cover #deaths #documents

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#done #end #entitled #i #i think

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dream #friends #gain #matters #sake

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#government #had #happened #i #just

Some will criticize me no matter what I do. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#i #i do #matter #me #some

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. ↗

— Don Henley

#between #certain #ecology #focus #i