Able Quote by Epictetus

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in regard to…

— Ellen Key

The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

— Richard Helms

Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation…

— Aristotle

Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.

— Douglas Groothuis

Men will not understand … that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in…

— Immanuel Kant

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

While the State may respectfully require obedience on many matters, it cannot violate the moral nature of a man, convert him into a serviceable…

— Liane Norman

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill,…

— William Dunbar

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without…

— Aristotle

Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The…

— Frederick Douglass

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents…

— Henry David Thoreau