Causes Quote by Maria Weston Chapman

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

— Edmund Burke

The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“One of the first motives to civil society, and which becomes one of its fundamental rules, is that no man should be judge in…

— Edmund Burke

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men tend to be selfish.

— Caprice Bourret

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth…

— Plutarch

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not…

— Julian Bond

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

— Tariq Ali

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are…

— Edmund Burke

A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor -…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable…

— Rebecca West