Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [301-320] of 368 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Among the mighty are those who recognize beauty as power, and power as beautiful.~ Eric Schaub True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.~ Felix E. Schelling Righteousness is easy in retrospect.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.~ Carl Schurz CRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.~ Howard Scott Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca No legacy is so rich as honesty.~ William Shakespeare With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.~ William Shakespeare Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard Shaw We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.~ George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.~ George Bernard Shaw If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?~ Harry Shearer Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley [A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.~ Algernon Sidney To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.~ Lewis Smedes Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.~ Adam Smith Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print