Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by… — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,--and I fear too justly,--but we never reflect, what we have to thank for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Reagents are regarded as acting by virtue of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for nuclei... the terms electrophilic (electron-seeking) and… — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image
“Doing something well is a virtue. Even in school, children learn a concept thoroughly before moving on to the next assignment. They… — Suzanne Woods Fisher Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better… — Marianne de Pierres Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice… — William James Copy Share Image
Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of… — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice"… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice - and I still regard them as vices - under Thatcherism was… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
