I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the…

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of…

— Elizabeth Neel

As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in…

— J. G. A. Pocock

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical…

— John Stuart Mill

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

— George Bernard Shaw

“For the Orthodox tradition, then, Adam's original sin affects the human race in its entirety, and it has consequences both on the physical and…

— Kallistos Ware

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought…

— Jean Piaget

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the…

— William James

“honor included not only physical and moral courage but also a daring commitment to central beliefs,”

— James A. Michener

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm…

— John Stuart Mill

It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries…

— Adolphe Quetelet

“Never in history has such ruination – physical and moral – been associated with the name of one man”.”

— Hourly History

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual…

— John Stuart Mill

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