Accepting Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal “oughtness”…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is…

— Boris Pasternak

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

— Roger Williams

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

“We should accept indiscriminately all His dispensations, whether obscurity or illumination, fruitfulness or barrenness, weakness or strength, sweetness or bitterness, temptations, distractions, pain, weariness,…

— Madame Guyon

“A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object,…

— Earl of Chesterfield

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

I confess, that practically speaking, when I have learneda man's real disposition, I have no hopes of changing it for the better or worse…

— Henry David Thoreau

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

— Hannah Arendt

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds; and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination…

— Marian Evans