Michael Faraday Quotes

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages of egoic madness in the 20th century, and even now it still is playing itself out. It has not quite come to an end yet.

Alcohol-inspired fights are a reminder of the price we pay for our daily submission at the altars of prudence and order.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

A little fight in you. I like that.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.