Courage Quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1477808298
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Courage Quotes by FRANKLIN P. JONES-1477805331
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Courage Quotes by SULTANA ZORAYA-1477751213
Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.
Courage Quotes by EDWARD VERNON RICKENBACKER-1477740343
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Courage Quotes by HARPER LEE-1477736623
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
Courage Quotes by MARK TWAIN-1477735192
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
Courage Quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1477726791
People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
Courage Quotes by MARK TWAIN-1477725467
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Courage Quotes by MARY ANNE RADMACHER-1477723766
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
country quotes by BILL VAUGHAN-1477722095
My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
country quotes by JOHN ADAMS-1477720574
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
country quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON-1477715791
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
country quotes by DON A. DILLMAN-1477678403
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
country quotes by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL-1477676773
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.
country quotes by WILLIAM COWPER-1477656919
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.
country quotes by LEONARDO DA VINCI-1477654092
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.
country quotes by SYDNEY SMITH-1477637459
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
country quotes by HENRI ROUSSEAU-1477631211
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!
country quotes by CYRIL CONNOLLY-1477629722
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
consumerism quotes by PAUL HEYNE-1477627962
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.
consumerism quotes by ADRIANO TILGHER-1477592386
Forethought and temperance are the virtues which produced thrift, and with thrift the economic progress of society. And those are the virtues which today are gravely compromised.
consumerism quotes by RICHARD BACH-1477590815
In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
consumerism quotes by KIN HUBBARD-1477589594
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
consumerism quotes by EDWARD ABBEY-1477587863
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
consumerism quotes by UNKNOWN-1477586468
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
consumerism quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1477583861
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.
consumerism quotes by FROM THE MOVIEFIGHT CLUB-1477566556
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
consumerism quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1477550277
Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.
consumerism quotes by ADRIANO TILGHER-1477499207
I may be a pessimist, but the philosophy of anti-thrift just now coming into being seems to me the greatest danger to the peace of the world.
consumerism quotes by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE-1477497954
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
consumerism quotes by CHANNING E. PHILLIPS-1477493983
Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.
consumerism quotes by JOHN BERGER-1477482287
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
consumerism quotes by MAD MAGAZINE-1477474124
The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.
consumerism quotes by VERNON HOWARD-1477470151
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
consumerism quotes by ERIC HOFFER-1477463270
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
consumerism quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1477416172
Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.
consumerism quotes by ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND ADVERTISEMENT-1477409665
U.S. consumers and industry dispose of enough aluminum to rebuild the commercial air fleet every three months; enough iron and steel to continuously supply all automakers; enough glass to fill New York's World Trade Center every two weeks.
consumerism quotes by MAHATMA GANDHI-1477407956
God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.
consumerism quotes by WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS-1477406684
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
consumerism quotes by MOHANDAS K. GANDHI-1477405205
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
conformity quotes by BETHANIA MCKENSTRY-1477394407
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
conformity quotes by SIDNEY JOURARD-1477393094
We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These ot
conformity quotes by WALTER BAGEHOT-1477391824
Public opinion... requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
conformity quotes by WALTER BAGEHOT-1477390162
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
conformity quotes by ORSON SCOTT CARD-1477387531
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
conformity quotes by JAPANESE PROVERB-1477383050
If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
conformity quotes by HENRY BESSEMER (DISCOVERED NEW METHOD OF PRODUCING STEEL)-1477380208
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.
conformity quotes by VINCENT VAN GOGH-1477378928
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
conformity quotes by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES-1477367845
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
conformity quotes by EDGAR WATSON HOWE-1477327039
Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.
conformity quotes by ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS-1477325510
Our concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
conformity quotes by JOHN F. KENNEDY-1477319721
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
conformity quotes by GEORGE S. PATTON-1477298932
If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.
conformity quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1477294725
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.
conformity quotes by CARL SANDBURG-1477291611
The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."
conformity quotes by ROBERT PEEL-1477288656
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
conformity quotes by AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE AND JULIUS CHARLES HARE-1477286790
A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
conformity quotes by GRACE HOPPER-1477243726
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
conformity quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1477242282
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Courage Quotes by WINSTON CHURCHILL-1477240521
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Courage Quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1477238426
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Courage Quotes by SAMUEL JOHNSON(THANKS-1477236916
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
country quotes by VITA SACKVILLE-WEST-1477235180
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
country quotes by WILLIAM HAZLITT-1477233401
When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
conformity quotes by LA BRUYERE-1477229923
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
conformity quotes by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN-1477228163
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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