Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not… — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
In the corridors of diplomacy people gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't. — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
Working as a Foreign Office lawyer in 2003, I was less worried by the quibbling over U.N. resolutions on Iraq than the… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Dear Daughter, Know your capacity before you help others; and as you do that, do not forget to ask for help when… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it. — Bobby Moynihan Copy Share Image
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
