Capacity Quote by George McGovern

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is…

— Saul Bellow

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

— Gary Ackerman

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations…

— Gunnar Myrdal

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an…

— Paul Auster

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

“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

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

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

— John Adams