The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Vanity calculates but poorly on the vanity of others; what a virtue we should distil from frailty, what a world of pain… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If one leads them with administrative measures and uses punishments to make them conform, the people will be evasive, but if one… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class;… — Samuel Smiles 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
“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
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
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
... 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
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
[P]erfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Faith is trusting Jesus to lead us and going where He leads. What avails it to me to analyze Saratoga water, and… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country. — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth… — William Shirley Copy Share Image
All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The death of deference seems to be general at the moment, so everybody has to earn their reputation and trust all over… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of the suffering or humiliation that was in it; but whatever… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
To be successful in an endeavor inculcate the virtue of self esteem, confidence, never to give up and to stand up for… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think no virtue goes with size;The reason of all cowardiceIs, that men are overgrown,And, to be valiant, must come downTo the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the… — Hassan al-Banna Copy Share Image
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
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