Civilization depends on morality.
Interpretation
Morality is the foundation upon which society is built.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the crucial role of morality in establishing and maintaining civilization. He suggests that without a moral framework, societal structures cannot flourish, highlighting the importance of ethical principles in guiding human behavior and interactions.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of moral education in schools.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.
The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.
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