To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
No degree of speculative knowledge of religion is any certain sign of true piety. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“I am not perfect, but if I looked perfect to everyone I must have been rocking imperfect perfectly to a few imperfect… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. — Horace Copy Share Image
I detest the niqab and the burka for their erasure of women and for dangerously equating piety with that disappearance - the… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth, while being completely devoted to the will of God, was… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
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