Social Virtues Quotes

#1. What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. How inestimably important in its moral results - and therefore how praiseworthy in itself - is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.

Wilkie Collins

#3. The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.

Timothy Snyder

#4. Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.

Samuel Johnson

#6. We have replaced the religious passions with Christian social virtues, and to talk of Man's triumph in terms of mercy, charity, or compassion is as senseless as expecting to find a Christ standing his turn of beers in a Paddington public house.

Bill Hopkins

#7. Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues

Sunday Adelaja

#8. I can get to be so little you can't even see me.

John Steinbeck

#9. The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax.

Matt Shea

#10. I love Errol Morris so much; he's one of my heroes.

Maria Thayer

#11. I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#12. Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

John Updike

#13. Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination
devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues
which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us.

Tony Judt

#15. You're not the boss of me," she told him breathlessly.
His chuckle sounded strangled. "Pretend I am for a while.

Cherry Adair

#16. The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

#17. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

#18. Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.

Mona Charen

#19. You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Nonviolence is not merely a personal virtue. It is also a social virtue to be cultivated like other virtues.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body, expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed through social position and companionship.

Manly P. Hall

#22. Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Don DeLillo

#23. My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity - home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines

James Joyce

#24. Sweat it out then back home to my man to make dinner. # hausWife

Lady Gaga

#25. The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

Christine De Pizan

#26. Much better stay in company!
To love you must have someone else,
Giving requires a legatee,
Good neighbours need whole parishfuls
Of folk to do it on - in short,
Our virtues are all social; if,
Deprived of solitude, you chafe,
It's clear you're not the virtuous sort.

Philip Larkin

#27. I made such a fool of myself," she lamented.
"Love does not make you a fool."
"He didn't love me back."
"That does not make you a fool, either."
"Just tell me ... " Her voice cracked. "When does it stop hurting?"
"Sometimes never.

Mitch Albom

#28. I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

Geoffrey Rush

#29. Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

Alexander Lowen

#30. I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

James Boswell

#31. A man should give us a sense of mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#32. The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

Adeline Yen Mah