(656 quotes found)
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality”
Dante Alighieri
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes”
Calvin Coolidge
“I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.”
James Whistler
“Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.”
William Irwin Thompson
“I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.”
Charles Darwin
“Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy [and] it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.”
Byron R. White
“Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours”
Thomas Mann
“One, who maintains cleanliness keeps away diseases.”
Sam Veda
“I've just got to maintain my passion for what I do.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.”
Carol Moseley Braun
