Own Sakes Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere of moral concern;…
— Peter Singer
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a…
— John Herschel
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that love…
— Joseph Glanvill
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
— Frederick Buechner
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We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity…
— Deepak Chopra
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
— Bertrand Russell
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to…
— John Selden
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Though Will was saying earlier,†Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would want to be…
— Cassandra Clare
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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too…
— Maimonides
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a…
— John Herschel
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... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in easy circumstances by…
— Mrs H O Ward
Who Wrote These Own Sakes Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Own Sakes Quotes as follows: