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"Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom"
Quote by -Charles Baudelaire
"We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle."
Quote by -Cesar Chavez
"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."
Quote by -Ambrose Bierce
"It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
“The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Two different sets of philosophers have attempted to teach us this hardest of all the lessons of morality. One set have laboured to increase our sensibility to the interests of others; another, to diminish that to our own. The first would have us feel for others as we naturally feel for ourselves. The second would have us feel for ourselves, as we naturally feel for others.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“It is in this manner that the demand for men, like that for any other commodity, necessarily regulates the production of men; quickens it when it goes on too slowly, and stops it when it advances too fast.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!
Quote by -William Godwin
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
Quote by -William Makepeace
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations...
Quote by -William Makepeace
It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.
Quote by -Samuel Beckett
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Quote by -Susan Sontag
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken