Character Quote by George Bataille Download Open image ““at the basis of every virtue is our power to break its hold”” — George Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Power
“Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“One who calls virtue into being is one who has what it takes to make a success.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“We have to cease leaning on our own understanding and start relying on the wisdom, strength, and power of our sovereign God.” — Cherie Hill Copy Share Image
“We hardly ever realize it, that we have the ability to cut anything out of our lives, any pain, any misery, any negative person,… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly” — S. E. Entsua-Mensah Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.” — Plato Copy Share Image
“I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.” — George Bataille Copy Share Image
In essence, the domain of eroticism is the domain of violence, of violation. — George Bataille Copy Share Image
The stirrings within us have their own fearful excesses; the excesses show which way these stirrings would take us. They are simply a sign… — George Bataille Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
