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Other Quotes by Joan D. Chittister
- My limitations make space for the gifts of other people. Without the grace of our limitations we would be isolated, dry, and insufferable creatures indeed.
- Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you…
- Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can…
- It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up.…
- Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour