Virtuous Society Quotes

#1. To achieve the ultimate Confucian objective - a virtuous society - America has favored the rule of laws over Confucian-style virtues.

Patrick Mendis

#2. A virtuous society, by contrast, is one that shares belief in objective moral goods and the practices necessary for human beings to embody those goods in community. To

Rod Dreher

#3. Run was a song about grasping for happiness just out of reach, about endless, temporary good-byes. A song only a ghost should sing.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#4. It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

Douglas Pagels

#5. If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society.

Isaac Asimov

#7. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

Enid Blyton

#8. The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Ron Paul

#9. Every body has a tickle spot, somtimes you just have to find it.

Derek Jeter

#10. You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with you.

Lev Grossman

#11. The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government ...

George Washington

#12. As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

Wendell Berry

#13. There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride

Mary Wollstonecraft

#14. I normally work out six days a week. I'll do Pilates on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and I'll do cardio on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Rachel Nichols

#15. So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

Mark Levin

#16. Venice smiled with extreme pleasure. She would never be the virtuous woman, her mother wanted her to be. She would never capitulate to society. After all their regulations were meant to be broken.

Mary Sage Nguyen

#17. The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

Brennan Manning

#18. 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

#19. The philosophic goal in China was a search for harmony and perfection, not the discovery of truth by reasoning. In China's Confucian society, the best pathway to perfection was the development of a virtuous life.

Patrick Mendis

#20. The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

Hannah

#21. Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#22. I want to be a designer for my time.

Gianni Versace