Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels. — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“all the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and have no other objective than to arrive at love. [19” — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You have to make sure that [grants] reach people by virtue of their Identity Documents. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages. — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who… — Thomas of Villanova Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Endurance: It is the spirit which can bear things, not simply with resignation, but with blazing hope. It is the quality which… — Anonymous 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
“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
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Humility, which Burke ranked high among the virtues, is the only effectual restraint upon this congenital vanity; yet our world has nearly… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanity is a Virtue all preach, none practice, and yet every body is content to hear — John Selden Copy Share Image
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue. — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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