Asks Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

— Dexter Scott King

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very…

— Samuel Johnson

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate…

— Samuel Johnson

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only…

— Gustave Flaubert

Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with morality. I'm…

— Paul Bloom

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

— Margaret Deland

Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for…

— Michael Sandel

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

— Victor Hugo

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the…

— Elizabeth Smart