Recommitting A Crime Quotes & Sayings

Society. Sins such as adultery, bribery, and betrayal are more like treason than like crime; they damage the social order. Social harmony can be rewoven only by slowly recommitting to relationships and rebuilding trust. The sins of arrogance and pride arise from a perverse desire for status and superiority. The only remedy for them is to humble oneself before others. In other words, people in earlier times inherited a vast moral vocabulary and set of moral tools, developed over centuries and handed down from generation to generation. This was a practical inheritance, like learning how to speak a certain language, which people could use to engage their own moral struggles. — David Brooks

Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways. — A.E. Housman

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost. — John O. Brennan

Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid. — Lesley Howarth

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life. — Philip Toshio Sudo

In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important. — Walter Isaacson

The universe reveals its secrets to those that dare to follow their hearts. — Ralph Smart