Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
“° I have sought the good, and not the hurt of our young people. I have desired their truest honor and happiness,… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
You cannot persist in wanting what you already have. If you assume you are what you desire to be to the point… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for… — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
The virtue of gay equality has become increasingly recognized in the U.S. because people have been persuaded of its merits, not because… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
In 2007 and 2008, it was impossible to get American and British policy makers, or Pakistani politicians, to acknowledge that the Taliban… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
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the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
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I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
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