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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. Albert Schweitzer

Man, Personality, Ethics, Perfection

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change. Paolo Nutini

Change, Racism, You, Worst, Never, Forms

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God. Billy Graham

War, God, Religion, Devil, Communism

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. Tadao Ando

Live, Architecture, People, Believe, Way

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed. Nat Turner

Religion, Mind, Thoughts, Attention

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do. Peter McWilliams

Anger, Guilt, Others, Resentment, Did

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are. David Icke

Potential, Unique, Race, Conformity

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work. Alexander Graham Bell

Work, Father, Childhood, Professional

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. Epicurus

Happiness, Exercise, Present, Everything

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Jawaharlal Nehru

Action, Effective, Clearly, Must, Ends

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery. Jane Goldman

Anger, Yourself, Recovery, Someone, Act

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. William Henry Harrison

Purpose, Government, Rich, Believe, Poor

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion. Pope Benedict XVI

Love, Change, God, Unity, Words, Always

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley

Soul, I Am, Fate, My Soul, Captain, Only

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Passion, Great, Power, Waiting, Day

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. Carl Sandburg

Anger, Nothing, More, Most, Against, Who

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. William Henry Harrison

Purpose, Government, Rich, Poor, Making

At least in the United States, most economic resentment is not directed toward billionaires or high-roller financiers - not even corrupt ones. It's directed at the guy down the hall who got a bigger raise. It's directed at the husband of your wife's sister, because he earns 20 percent more than you do. Tyler Cowen

Wife, Sister, Husband, You, Down, More

Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. Viktor E. Frankl

Meaning, Someone, Being Human, Always

I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us. Samuel de Champlain

Men, People, Duty, Movement, Us, Against

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. Walt Whitman

Universe, Individual, Theory, Single

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. Henry A. Wallace

Man, Power, Political, Capture, Keep

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur. Dolores Huerta

People, Violence, Run, Trying, Down, Us

It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility. Cesare Beccaria

Growth, Conflict, Impossible, Human

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art. Sol LeWitt

Today, Art, Political, Significant

Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. Robert Gottlieb

Inspirational, Family, Happy, Thought

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