Common Quote by Christopher Dawson

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

— Edwin Louis Cole

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective…

— Franklin Pierce

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

— Noah Feldman

There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

— Tobias Wolff

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its…

— Harold E. Varmus

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance…

— Barack Obama

In the United States, as elsewhere, there are, and have always been, two parties in politics ... It is remarkable how nearly their positive…

— Harriet Martineau

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain…

— D. H. Lawrence

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

— Seamus Heaney

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common…

— Barack Obama

The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential…

— Konrad Lorenz

“The question then as now is whether we can hold true to our common ideals even in the midst of discord.”

— Bret Baier

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

— Paul Watson

With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower