Agreement Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agreement Agreement Decency Character Concern Decency Decency Public Matter Moral Morality Morals Morals Matter
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Do you know what morals are? Morals are an obedience to rules that people laid down to help you live among them. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
We've had other things come up in their place, but I don't think' anything beats morals. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a different reading. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison. — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
