#noble

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#own #rendered #sake #service #which

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ennoble #necessarily #suffering #you

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#been #black #complicated #does #ennoble

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#back #bargains #been #benefit #carry

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop. ↗

— Tacitus

#appreciated #best #character #develop #most

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble. ↗

— Michael Moore

#ever #good #good movie #making #movie

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #exists #felt #forces #him

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#loves #maverick #nobler #rebellion #simple