John Ruskin Quotes
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Patrick Leahy
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
Wayne Newton
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Majora Carter
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
H. L. Mencken
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
William Penn
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Sin is like a cancer; God’s presence is like radiation on that cancer.
Bob Sorge
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
