Annoying Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

— James Anthony Froude

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

— Ann Landers

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Manners are stronger than laws

— Thomas Carlyle

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

— Baron de Montesquieu

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…

— Louisa May Alcott

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

— Shawn Johnson

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin