#sacred

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#committed #cost #delivers #each #expended

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#country #cow #cows #everyone #growth

It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. ↗

— Alveda King

#continuity #destroy #generations #genocide #guarantees

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. ↗

— Marquis de Lafayette

#each #for the people #government #insurrection #most

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#art #artist #briefly #call #called

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#confidence #faithful #honesty #honor #live

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. ↗

— Rumi

#cup #disappear #fills #front #hurt

I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#feeling #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#crime #fear #full #glory #inspires