Categories
Quotes
-
854We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 854 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
746Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 746 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
785Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Mortimer Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 785 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
709If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. Mortimer Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 709 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
683It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 683 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
708When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 708 hits
Mortimer Adler Quote -
793There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 793 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
862The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 862 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
778The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 778 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
772Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 772 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
741Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 741 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
775The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 775 hits
Freda Addler Quote -
744That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. Freda Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 744 hits
Freda Adler Quote -
230If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 230 hits
Felix Adler Quote -
941If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 941 hits
Felix Adler Quote -
931For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. Felix Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 931 hits
Felix Adler Quote -
898FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. Felix Adler
- 0 0 •
- Quote created by Mary
- in Uncategorized
- 12 years ago.
- 898 hits
Felix adler Quote