Character Quote by Karen Horney

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

— Leonard Bacon

Free thyself from the mighty attraction- The maddening wine of love, the charm of sex. Break the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . .

— Swami Vivekananda

“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The greater the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

— Learned Hand

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at…

— Michael Moss

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The United States, a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, destroyed the last of its stocks of VX and other chemical agents on the…

— Barton Gellman

The calendar? A mere convention.

— Irina Ratushinskaya

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

— Elizabeth Bowen

“We'd been trying so hard to look like our heroes, we'd kinda forgotten what a hero really is. Capes, masks, powers — sure, that's…

— Mikko