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?
Scapegoating is as American as apple pie. And because there's almost always a racial or ethnic dynamic to it in our country, scapegoating is the evil cousin of white supremacy.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization.
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.
I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.
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