To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Edward Bates Copy Share Image
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The common belief that... the actual relations between religion and science over the last few centuries have been marked by deep and… — Colin Archibald Russell Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes,… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Patrick Cockburn Copy Share Image
By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
