Doe Quotes - Page 405

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not define itself as both a punishing and corporate state. This is not merely a matter of redefining sovereignty, but also rethinking what is distinctive about the social state, social responsibility, and the common good.

The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not only negates the established order but imagines a new one, one informed by a radical vision in which the future does not imitate the present.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

Our help does not come from Washington, but from ourselves.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

Love does not analyze its object.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

Tao can be used by anybody, but it does not beling to anyone. It is just like air; everyone can breathe the air, but no one can claim ownership of the air.