The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Write it on your forehead, write it on your heart, on your third chakra, on your second chakra and your first chakra.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.… — Janice Rogers Brown Copy Share Image
Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along,… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“To the daughters of Eve, that they may teach men that love is not lechery, nor the simony of voluptuousness, but a… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Those with enlightened virtue please the people, those without enlightened virtue please themselves. Those who please the people grow, those who please… — Thomas Cleary Copy Share Image
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Book critics or theatre critics can be derisively negative and gain delighted praise for the trenchant with of their review. But in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they… — Boethius Copy Share Image
