Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 371 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.~ Assyrian Tablet Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.~ Saint Augustine I'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'~ Tallulah Bankhead Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!~ Ezra Taft Benson The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.’~ Richard Bernstein No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them.~ Tom Bethel As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind... Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.~ Ambrose Bierce A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.~ Napoleon Bonaparte Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.~ Buddha Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.~ Buddha If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther Burbank Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.~ Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.~ Edmund Burke But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.~ Edmund Burke Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print