#ethos

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#theology

Never, since the fall of communism, has it been so abundantly clear that an ethos exists, which is loath to accept the freedoms and prosperity we hold sacred in this nation. ↗

— Jim Walsh

#been #clear #communism #ethos #exists

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#accurate #american #american values #bit #call

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#better #counteract #crisis #deep #ethos

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

I came up around people who took acting seriously, who cared about acting, cared about the theater and, in the '70s, made movies that said something that mattered. I came up with those people, and I was a kid. Their ethos and credo became mine. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#acting #around #became #came #cared

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #inspirational

As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#combat #combat-infantry #marine #marine-corps #marines

...the Pope vigorously upholds the real power of redemption to liberate the human heart from the domination of lust, calling men and women to a new "ethos. ↗

— Christopher West

#freedom #life #p #freedom

You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#warrior #warrior-ethos #freedom