What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.
Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.
It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.
The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.
The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.
We can be at peace through the realization that the adversity is beneficial to act as the genuine demand for wisdom and spiritual power.
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.
