Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Person

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Down

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • Society
  • Political

• Rising anti-Semitism is rarely the lone or the last expression of intolerance in a society.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Society
  • Expression
  • Last

• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Change
  • Responsibility

• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Family
  • High
  • Society

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• Tension is the great integrity.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Great
  • Integrity
  • Tension

• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Society
  • Ideas

• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Society
  • Fire
  • Ethical

• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Walking

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Thinking
  • Society

• In a nutshell, Erhard's message was this: If you are in a rut, the problem isn't your parents, your boss or the system, it's you. Take responsibility, Erhard said, and you can transform your life overnight.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Society
  • Wonder
  • Appreciation

• I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Addiction

• Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

  

  David Starr Jordan
  • Wisdom

• Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.

  

  Gene Krupa
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

  

  Kendall Schmidt Big Time Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Integrity