As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.
I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day.
I used to come to practice and go through the motions. I don't do that anymore. I look forward to practices. I even enjoy the windsprints.
Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.
Strange is the man who practices his religion.
In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.
Through the practices of yoga, we discover that concern for the happiness and well being of others, including animals, must be an essential part of our own quest for happiness and well being. The fork can be a powerful weapon of mass destruction or a tool to create peace on Earth.
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions in different places refutes the law of gravity
Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices. . . Those definitions. . . are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.
Best practices usually aren't.
If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion.
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.