Character Quote by Charles Sumner

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

— Muhammad Iqbal

“Moral elevation" describes the feeling of being uplifted by an act of uncommon goodness. Elevation brings out what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels…

— Sheryl Sandberg

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.

— Cheikh Anta Diop

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul…

— Madame de Stael

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and…

— Simone Weil

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the…

— Oscar Wilde

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like fruit that…

— Tracey Bond

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession…

— Joseph Pulitzer

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

— Peter Zumthor

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

— Mark Twain