Spirit Quotes - page 4

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. (Harry S. Truman)
History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. View quote
Bobby Sands
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take. View quote
James Blunt
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. View quote
Ayn Rand
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. (Karel Čapek)
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
Edmund Burke
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
Speak to Him thou for He hears, And spirit with spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, And nearer than hands and feet. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We are all different - but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt - and survive. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. View quote
Norman Mailer
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. View quote
Norman Mailer
The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood. (Robert E. Howard)
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions. View quote
Jacques Chirac
He was exhaled his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew. View quote
John Dryden
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne