“ Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ”
- Arthur Schnitzler- Copy
- 2K
“ No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
- 107
“ The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct? ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 581
“ The way that I approach my entire racing career is to do it right. ”
- Willy T. Ribbs- Copy
- 2.2K
“ There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. ”
- David Starr Jordan- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 481
“ A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness. ”
- Walter Bagehot- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 1.9K
“ More often there's a compromise between ethics and expediency. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
- 937
“ Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. ”
- Salvatore Quasimodo- Copy
- 3.3K
“ It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
- 476
“ Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 864
“ A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. ”
- Robert Chapman- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 956
“ Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. ”
- Lawana Blackwell- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment? ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 84
“ Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 2.6K
“ For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. ”
- John Florio- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 438
“ Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. ”
- Thomas Bowdler- Copy
- 271
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