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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Abraham Lincoln

Patriotism Better True Wrong Kind

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

Good Art Dance Service

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Truth Friends Honor Us

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Love Truth Friends Honor

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace Culture Mind Peace Of Mind

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

George Washington

Me You I Am Path

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

May Shield Persecution Religious

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

George Santayana

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

Men Universe True Own

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Moving On Moving Half Line

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

More Than Infectious Paganism

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

Flower Character Flowers Earth

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Courage Well Pretenders

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety.

Alain de Botton

Beautiful People Rich Think

I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Football Friends Matter Church

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Evil Goodness Solid Most

Faith is never identical with piety.

Faith Never Identical

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.

Eyes Journey World End

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

Children Worship Grandparents Favor

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Queen Rania of Jordan

God Respect People Pressure

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

Know Study Out Because

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

Hussein of Jordan

Faith Religion Sex Color

This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

Life Alone Wisdom God

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Society Way Wrong Wrong Way

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Good Children Person Through

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

Marriage Job Done Own

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