It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot…

The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty

— Anonymous

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to…

— Erich Fromm

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material…

— Emile Durkheim

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant.…

— Amy Trask

God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

— Poemen

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

— Mary Livermore

A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in…

— Carl Rogers

Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative…

— Anonymous

Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories…

— Elizabeth Loftus

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It…

— Karen Marie Moning

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all…

— Jonathan Dee

“What makes a good leader? I ask myself this every day, and then as I begin to list off characteristics I realize I’m describing…

— Jarod Kintz

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

— Jim Lee