Character Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre Download Open image ““[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.”” — Voltairine de Cleyre ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Human nature
“[I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.” — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.” — George Dennison Copy Share Image
“And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.” — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“unless there is a telos which transcends the limited goods of practices by constituting the good of a whole human life, the good of… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“...the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God's nature. He did not create morality, he is morality.” — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
“[T]he human being (and so all finite beings generally) becomes human only among others. Self and other stand in a relation of potential reciprocity.” — Johann Fichte Copy Share Image
“[T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.” — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is time for humanity to realize that noble ends can only be attained through ethical means.” — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be what they… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and every other… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their enemies’ hands,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
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