The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle Copy Share Image
Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd .… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
But merely accepting authoritarian truth, even if that truth has some virtue, does not bring skepticism to an end. To blindly accept… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are… — George Will Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The virtue of small-to-midsize companies is that they tend to be more flexible and it is easier to experiment with new ways… — Roger Martin Copy Share Image
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
![“[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there… Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their…” quote by George Will](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/af5/george-will-1177_anger_the-world-trade-center-and-the-pentagon_451169.jpg)
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