No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be…

No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established…

— Michael Josephson

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone…

— Simone Weil

“start with a baseline of how often a habit or practice atrophies or breaks down, and then you start stacking up advantages to increase…

— Sebastian Marshall

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must…

— Robert Nozick

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty.

— Kenneth Clark

It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon…

— J. William Fulbright

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in…

— James Madison

What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the…

— Margaret Fuller

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding…

— Elihu Root

If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he…

— William Howard Schuman

“Adherence is key. Keep it in mind when designing experiments; design experiments you can adhere to.   3.”

— Sebastian Marshall

It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we…

— Lucretia Mott

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater…

— Douglas B. Reeves