Able Quote by Elie Ducommun

It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent.

— Benjamin Franklin

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the…

— Ronald Fisher

Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are born in both intellectual and moral darkness. We need the influence of the Holy Spirit—in the life of Jesus Christ, in the…

— Heath White

“We hold from God the gift which, as far as we are concerned, contains all others, Life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very…

— Aldous Huxley

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they…

— Abhijit Naskar

Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.

— John Adams

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus

“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an…

— Karl Mannheim

I do not believe that God has created us under this dire necessity to toil, like beasts, to sustain life. I believe it is…

— William Lloyd Garrison