"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased,……" — Felix Adler
"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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30 Quotes by Felix Adler
Felix Adler has 30 quotes on this site.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning,…
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of…
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the…
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you…
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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More Corrupt Quotes
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt…
— Glenn Beck
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Joseph Addison
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their…
— Bono
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on…
— Stokely Carmichael
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people…
— Anton Chekhov
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are…
— Jack Abramoff
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
— Marquis de Sade
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds…
— Juvenal
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
— William Shakespeare
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