A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless.… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I find contemporary Holocausts against other species so unbearable as to make life itself a fundamental question mark. Are we a demonic,… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us… The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe.… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Virtue is the strength and power of daughters of God. ... If all humanity really understood the importance of the statement ‘We… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are… — Harold Macmillan Copy Share Image
Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom; those who lack virtue have… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what… — John Sentamu Copy Share Image
The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am and have always been a strong proponent of public education. But by the virtue of its very nature - publicly… — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
