In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The very fact that the planet is probably unsustainable with all that we've done to it and are doing to it, it's… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest,… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
It generally takes its rise either from an ill-will to mankind, a private inclination to make ourselves esteemed, an ostentation of wit,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an… — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image