Quality Quotes - Page 90

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

The devastation of neoliberalism is so multi-fold, whether it's violence against women or desperate economic inequality or the destruction of the planet.

The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence.

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability rather than display.