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[Quote No.19517] Need Area: Friends > General
"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it." - George Horace Lorimer
(1868 - 1937) American editor
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[Quote No.19518] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles." - Philip Skelton
(1707 - 1787) Irish divine
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[Quote No.19520] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.19546] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Crime] What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - The Bible, Matthew 16:26
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[Quote No.19558] Need Area: Friends > General
"...every enlightened man ought... with one hand develop what he can, with the other...uphold what he ought." - Friedrich von Gentz
(1764-1832), German publicist and statesman
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[Quote No.19564] Need Area: Friends > General
"The progress, order, security, and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries." - Pope John XXIII
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[Quote No.19565] Need Area: Friends > General
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945) 32nd U.S. President
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[Quote No.19576] Need Area: Friends > General
"In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the members to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influential to fleece the many who are poor." - John Adams
(1735 - 1826) 2nd U.S. President
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[Quote No.19585] Need Area: Friends > General
"The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1882 - 1945) 32nd U.S. President
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[Quote No.19624] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Crime:] Punishment is justice for the unjust." - Saint Augustine
(354-430), Philosopher, Bishop of Hippo
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[Quote No.19625] Need Area: Friends > General
"The whole of life and experience goes to show, that right or wrong doing, whether as to the physical or the spiritual nature, is sure in the end to meet its appropriate reward or punishment. Penalties may be delayed but they are sure to come." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.19626] Need Area: Friends > General
"...whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it." - Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) English clergy
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[Quote No.19627] Need Area: Friends > General
"The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime." - Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894) American theologian
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[Quote No.19628] Need Area: Friends > General
"The object of punishment is threefold: for just retribution; for the protection of society; for the reformation of the offender." - Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894) American theologian
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[Quote No.19629] Need Area: Friends > General
"The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. [and unavoidable]" - Oliver Goldsmith
(1728 - 1774) English poet, dramatist and novelist
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[Quote No.19630] Need Area: Friends > General
"The seeds of our punishment are sown at the same time we commit the sin." - Hesiod
(8th Century B. C.) Greek Poet
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[Quote No.19631] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Law and order:] Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs [the unintelligent criminal], it produces obstinacy, and it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." - Friedrich W. Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900) German philosopher
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[Quote No.19632] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Criminal] Wickedness, when properly punished, is disgraceful only to the offender; unpunished, it is disgraceful to the whole community." - Charles Simmons
(1798 - 1856) American clergy and litterateur
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[Quote No.19633] Need Area: Friends > General
"To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary; they must never be disproportioned to the offence and they must be certain." - William Gilmore Simms
(1806 - 1870) American author
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[Quote No.19648] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny." - Frederick W. Robertson
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[Quote No.19650] Need Area: Friends > General
"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832) German poet, dramatist and philosopher
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[Quote No.19651] Need Area: Friends > General
"If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it rather than yourself." - Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) English clergy
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[Quote No.19695] Need Area: Friends > General
"The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram." - Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819 - 1886) American essayist
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[Quote No.19696] Need Area: Friends > General
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man, the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
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[Quote No.19702] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Philo
also known as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judeaus(20 B.C. - 40 A.D.), Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt.
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[Quote No.19704] Need Area: Friends > General
"A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it." - unknown
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[Quote No.19708] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous, and culpable, in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it." - Juvenal
(60 - 140) Roman satirical poet
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[Quote No.19709] Need Area: Friends > General
"I weigh the man, not his title. It is not the king's stamp that makes the metal better." - William Wycherly
(1640 - 1715) English dramatist
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[Quote No.19742] Need Area: Friends > General
"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.19752] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics; following the 'golden rule of treating others as you'd like to be treated; honour and self-esteem; each person's equal, unalienable birth-right to freedom from force and fraud:] He, who lives under the guidance of reason, desires for others the good that he seeks for himself..." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.19753] Need Area: Friends > General
"...men do derive from social life much more convenience than injury." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.19754] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Morality and ethics: 'The Golden Rule' of treating others as we would like to be treated; empathy and reciprocity:] Men who are governed by reason - that is, who seek what is useful to them in accordance with reason - desire for themselves nothing, which they do not also desire for the rest of mankind, and, consequently, are just, faithful, and honorable in their conduct." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher.
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[Quote No.19755] Need Area: Friends > General
"The rational quest of what is useful to us further teaches us the necessity of associating ourselves with our fellowmen...we have the same rights in respect to them as they have in respect to us." - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.19761] Need Area: Friends > General
"No man can do right unless he is good, wise, and strong." - Charles Buxton
(1823 - 1871) English author
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[Quote No.19762] Need Area: Friends > General
"The man, who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as to be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world, is in possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. The course of such a man will be firm and steady because he has nothing to fear from the world..." - William Wirt
(1772 - 1834) American lawyer
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[Quote No.19766] Need Area: Friends > General
"How important, often, is the pain of guilt, a stimulant to amendment and reformation." - John Foster
(1836 - 1917) American lawyer
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[Quote No.19768] Need Area: Friends > General
"The true reformer will not only hate evil, but will earnestly endeavor to fill its place with good." - Charles Simmons
(1798 - 1856) American clergy and litterateur
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[Quote No.19769] Need Area: Friends > General
"What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself." - Thomas Sprat
(1636 - 1713) English author
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[Quote No.19773] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be kind. Remember everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - H. Thompson
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[Quote No.19775] Need Area: Friends > General
"He...who can be happy in himself, and who contributes all in his power toward the happiness of others, answers most effectually the ends of his creation, is an honor to his nature, and a pattern to mankind." - Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719) English essayist
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[Quote No.19776] Need Area: Friends > General
"It will be found that whatever purifies, also fortifies the heart." - Hugh Blair
(1718 - 1800) Scottish divine
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[Quote No.19778] Need Area: Friends > General
"All religions must be tolerated...for... every man must get to Heaven his own way." - Frederick The Great
(1712 - 1796) King of Prussia
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[Quote No.19779] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people." - Jean Guehenno
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[Quote No.19781] Need Area: Friends > General
"I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826) 3rd U.S. President
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[Quote No.19782] Need Area: Friends > General
"A church membership does not make one religious any more than owning a piano makes a musician." - Douglas Meador
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[Quote No.19783] Need Area: Friends > General
"Honor, honesty, integrity are the primary moral and ethical teachings of every religion." - Alfred Armand Montapert
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[Quote No.19784] Need Area: Friends > General
"The great comprehensive truths, written in letters of living light on every page of our history, are these: Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom, none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge..." - Josiah Quincy
(1741 - 1775) American patriot
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[Quote No.19786] Need Area: Friends > General
"What a great world this would be if people would spend as much energy practicing their religion as they spend quarreling about it." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19787] Need Area: Friends > General
"The task and triumph of religion is to make men and nations true and just and upright in all their dealings..." - H. J. Van Dyke
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[Quote No.19788] Need Area: Friends > General
"Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission its masterpiece is, to reunite them." - Alexander R. Vinet
(1797 - 1847) Swiss theologian
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