Character Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

— Jelly Roll Morton

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

— Tacitus

“a process of self-deception to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of righteousness. What one among us has any excuse but self-love? We do not…

— Austin Osman, Spare

Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us…

— Thomas Jefferson

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the…

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy”

— Jessica Dovey

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

— Helen Keller

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

— Susan B. Anthony