Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Hence both women and children must be educated with an eye to the constitution, if indeed it makes any difference to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A husband can commit no greater blunder than to discuss his wife, if she is virtuous, with his mistress; unless it be… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
“Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Temptations make one very censorious. If you are virtuous you condemn the wicked and if you are wicked, you condemn the virtuous. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The virtuous Man can afford a bad Memory, the Despicable burrows his own Grave.” — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image