Virtues

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."

"It is an irony of fate that myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault or merit of my own."

"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression when the mind is open to their influence."

"Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity — reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel —"

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

"I appeal to Amherst men to reiterate the Amherst doctrine that the man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and praise."

"It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence."

"...that all motives of hope and fear from invisible powers, which are not immediately derived from, and absolutely coincident with, the reverence due to the supreme reason of the universe, are all alike dangerous superstitions."

"Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die."

"Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him."

"The reverence and obedience due to the Reformed Church here, and to the bishops and pastors therein, was cast off, and every Man became a Judge of Religion, and interpretor of Scriptures for himself."

"It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knew how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme."

"REVERENCE, n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man."

"When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children."

"Not everything in religion is precious or deserving of reverence. There is an inheritance of anthropocentrism, the ugly fantasy that the Earth exists to serve humans, which most secular humanists share."

"How can I, when the battle rages, send an arrow through Bheeshma and Drona, who should receive my reverence?"

"They have a traditionary reverence for the name of their countrymen Ovid, but, like the poor Neapolitans who believe that Virgil was a great magician..."

"In general, people are more easily swayed by fear than inspired by reverence."

"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."

"The happiness of the individual is interwoven with that of his contemporaries: by the power of filial reverence and parental affection, individual existence is extended beyond the limits of individual love, and the happiness of every age is chained in mutual dependence upon that of every other."

"Reverence the gods, save men. Life is brief; there is but one harvest of earthly existence, a holy disposition and neighborly acts - Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life."

"An Acquisitive Society reverences the possession of wealth, as a Functional Society would honour, even in the person of the humblest and most laborious craftsman, the arts of creation."

"We think of beauty as being most worthy of reverence. But what is most worthy of reverence lights up only where the magnificent strength..."

"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

"A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom, for the discovery of the world as an allusion] to God."

"In order to appreciate the luxury of giving, one must have been, at some time, poor."

"The trouble with some folks who give till it hurts is that they are so sensitive to pain."

"The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out."

"To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race."

"A benevolent disposition is, no doubt, a great help towards a course of uniform practical benevolence; but let no one trust to it, when there are other strong propensities, and no firm good principle."

"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

"But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages."

"When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous and so noble? When we are always so much more deeply affected by whatever concerns ourselves, than by whatever concerns other men; what is it which prompts the generous, upon all occasions, and the mean upon many, to sacrifice their own interests to the greater interests of others? It is not the soft power of humanity, it is not that feeble spark of benevolence which Nature has lighted up in the human heart, that is thus capable of counteracting the strongest impulses of self-love. It is a stronger power, a more forcible motive, which exerts itself upon such occasions. It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct."

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”"

"If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be loved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain."

"A daughter who respects you while you’re alive is far better than a son who performs the rites and rituals after you’re gone."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"The pain shown by others and later understood doesn’t hurt as deeply as the pain one feels firsthand and then witnesses."

"Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity; let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a close mouth.-"

"You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent, even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

"I decided that the only form of government was a benevolent despotism, tempered with assassination. Then I went home again, hopeless. I am still hopeless, for that matter. We will commit the same follies again. Nothing teaches us."

""Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, that ye may be the sons of your Heavenly Father, who makes the sun to shine on the good and on the evil, and the rain to fall on the just and unjust." How monstrous a calumny have not impostors dared to advance against the mild and gentle author of this just sentiment, and against the whole tenor of his doctrines and his life, overflowing with benevolence and forbearance and compassion!"

"We can’t consider that women have kinky tastes, can we? No, because women are naturally benevolent and nurturing, aren’t they? Everything is so damn Mary Poppins and sanitized."

"We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality."

"Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man."

"When ruler and ruled love each other they will be gracious and loyal; when father and son love each other they will be affectionate and filial; when older and younger brothers love each other they will be harmonious. When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honoured will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple. And it is all due to mutual love that calamities, strife, complaints, and hatred are prevented from arising. Therefore the benevolent exalt it."