#virtue

The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia. ↗

— Lionel K. Murphy

#australia #cannot #development #government #nations

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#highest wisdom #ill #mankind #perhaps #them

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#crime #heroism #infamy #religion #their

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#crime #peace #virtue #war

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#any #closed #closed system #cognitive #correspond

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. ↗

— Robert Smith Surtees

#flattered #into #more #more people #out

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

#heart #i #into #jerusalem #pen

Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#came #character #choice #first #nation