Human Virtue Quotes
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Human Virtue Quotes & Sayings
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
— Voltaire
Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
— Honore De Balzac
The traditional Confucian structure that invoked ideals of perfect human virtue for harmony must incorporate the rule of law for the modern era.
— Patrick Mendis
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
— Iris Murdoch
Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth - yea, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning! A
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.
— Nicole Kidman
The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
— Saint Augustine
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it.
— Tadeusz Borowski
Virtue humanizes and spiritualizes what is part animal in us. Vice brutalizes what is human and spiritual in us.
— Anthony Esolen
Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.
— Karen Armstrong
I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does ...
— Catherine Brady
Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.
— Osamu Dazai
The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.
— Roger Rosenblatt
Integrity is the greatest commodity that pays the highest salary in any human endeavor. Integrity really pays
— Michael Quansah
Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.
— Marcus Aurelius
What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community
— Arthur Dobrin
In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
— Os Guinness
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.
— Walter Savage Landor
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
— Robert Frost
If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.
— Luc De Clapiers
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
— Horace
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
— Theodore Parker
In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity.
— Brennan Manning
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me
— Confucius
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
— David O. McKay
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
— Joseph Addison
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
— Mother Teresa
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.
— Thomas Keneally
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue.
— Robert Wright
The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.
— William Godwin
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
— Ashley Montagu
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[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.
— Frances Power Cobbe
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
— Dante Alighieri
