Virtue Quotes - Page 37

• Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

  Patrick Henry

  People, Interest, Suspicion

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• In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Distance, Taken

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• To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

  Martin Seligman

  Justice, Humanity, Six

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.121, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Maids, Bears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

  Thomas Malthus

  Attachment, Law, One Woman

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.16, eKitap Projesi

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• As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

  Pope Gregory I

  Men, Long, Done

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• My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Order, Evil, Choices

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• A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.

  Kingsley Martin

  Ideas, Mind, May

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• The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

  Michael Ventura

  Integrity, Crazy, Dark

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• Patience is not a virtue!

  Alan Chadwick

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• When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Two, Quality

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• There is explosive power in virtue.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Explosives

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• Analyze thy life's experiences, see thy shortcomings, see thy virtues. Minimize those faults, magnify and glorify thy virtues.

  Edgar Cayce

  Faults, Glorify, Shortcomings

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• The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

  Norman Mailer

  Memories, Editors, Doe

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.103, Random House

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• I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.'

  Helen Mirren

  Husband, Home, London

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• Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Idols, Armor

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Support, Way

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

  Confucius

  Ruins, Profession

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

  Brian Christian

  Needs, Inquiry, Want

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.

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• Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it's modest. I feel like that's an underrated virtue. It's modest and it's kind of anonymous, which I liked, because it reminds me of my own ideas about why music should be played, which is not to be a star. That was never my intention.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Stars, Ideas, Kind

  "Zooey Deschanel thrilled to be in She & Him". Interview with Marc Hirsh, www.today.com. March 18, 2008.

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• Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

  Confucius

  Punishment, People, Reform

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Ideas, Narcissism, Accepted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A prince must not have any objective nor any thought, nor take up any art, other than the art of war and its ordering and discipline; because it is the only art that pertains to him who commands. And it is of such virtue that not only does it maintain those who were born princes, but many times makes men rise to that rank from private station.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  The Prince ch. 14 (1532) (translation by Angelo M. Codevilla)

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• In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Father, Winter

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, Speak, Ashamed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.42, e-artnow

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