Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing... →
Phil Anselmo
I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.
David Antin
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that... →
Thomas Aquinas
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
Joan of Arc
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very... →
Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to... →
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they... →
Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but... →
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right... →