Foundation Quotes - Page 36

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Consider children as a beat. Clearly not an institution of power, children don't vote and they don't pass taxes. They have no money, and they don't buy newspapers or watch the news on television. Consequently, children are one of the most neglected segments of society in the news, except as a subtopic of other power beats such as education, family, and crime. Children are in serious trouble in this society, which means the foundation of our society is in trouble, which means the future is in trouble, and that is news.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked.

He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I am not an expert on the Clinton Foundation, so, you know, I don't want to pass judgment on it.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you dont, it crumbles.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

That solid basis for a foundation of faith is personal integrity.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.

What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.

I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature.

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.