Men Quote by Lord Acton Download Open image “Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.” — Lord Acton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Men Motive Policemen Spiritual
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free. — Anthony Wayne Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has… — Ann McElhinney Copy Share Image
“It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to live among men has to obey their laws this is what the secular morality of Western civilization comes down to. ...… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin 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
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and women had,… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image