Ann McLane Kuster famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply,

  • Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.

  • Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

  • There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

  • We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

  • The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

  • Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

  • A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.

  • Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

  • Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

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