The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For in order for capitalism to work -- in order for it to produce a good and a stable society -- the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
