Asks Quote by Dexter Scott King

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks…

— Martin Luther King Jr

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very…

— Samuel Johnson

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only…

— Gustave Flaubert

“A conscious human is driven by their conscience, not popular opinion.”

— Suzy Kassem

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate…

— Samuel Johnson

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I have frequently experienced myself the mood in which I felt that all is vanity; I have emerged from it not by any philosophy,…

— Betrand Russell

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

— Bertrand Russell