Jonathan Maberry Quotes

It's the community that helps form our moral compass. It's those attitudes that I've remembered through my entire lifetime.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

The same heart beats in every human breast.

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

Neither the crushing powers of the centralized State nor the teachings of mutual hatred ... could weed out the feeling of human solidarity, deeply lodged in men's understanding and heart, because it has been nurtured by all our preceding evolution.

Civilization depends on morality.

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

In order to know a community, one must observe the styles of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony.

One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.

It's just as important to be a good human being as it is to be a good actor.

The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

It is not our heads or our bodies which we must bring together, but our hearts. . . . Humanity. . . is building its composite brain beneath our eyes. May it not be that tomorrow, through the logical and biological deepening of the movement drawing it together, it will find its heart, without which the ultimate wholeness of its power of unification can never be achieved?

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.