Quote by Frédéric Bastiat

“Do not speak glibly of virtue. Nothing shall change-nothing-so long as each individual awaits preferment rather than embodying beneficence in himself; so long as…

— M.T. Anderson

“If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod.…

— William Carey

“But above all he must refrain from seizing the property of others, because a man is quicker to forget the death of his father…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And so at last, instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money; they honour and look up to the…

— Plato

“See then how He returns, not in actual flesh and blood, but, as I have said, building the road of His doctrine, with His…

— Catherine of Siena

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

“thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself,…

— Marcus Aurelius

“The time, then, had come for him to poison himself so that an economic monopoly could be kept alive, a sprawling, interplan empire from…

— Philip K. Dick

“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.”

— C.S. Lewis

“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“He is seized by an unthinking, irresistible call to hunt. To possess. To own her.”

— Georgia Le Carre

“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

— Baron d'Holbach