#manner

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. ↗

— Thomas More

#manners #politics #punishment #scapegoats #thieves

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#elaborate #end #like #manner #only

I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner. ↗

— Alejo Carpentier

#harmony #i #manner #spontaneous #studied

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #deaths #died #just #keep

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. ↗

— Donald McKay

#individual #manner #natural #processes #thought

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#being #brought #chip #dinner #dinner party

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#attitude #becomes #contents #demand #entailed

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan. ↗

— William Kirby

#big brother #brother #capacity #generous #internally

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#coaching #enjoying #i #manner #repetitious

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#defense #freedom #frightens #manner #mechanisms