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Last updated on September 10, 2024.
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.
Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.
There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.
The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.
I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.
I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting for how the high elevation would impact my tolerance.
Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.
I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her elevation towards an equality with man uniformly accompanies progress.
It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.
When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.
It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race.
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life.
My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting… but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.
There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.
It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.
The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.
Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.
The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
I calculate that I was responsible for proposing the elevation to the Lords of some 214 of its present numbers.
The mind must not be forced; artificial and constrained manners fill it with foolish presumption, through unnatural elevation and vain and ridiculous inflation, instead of solid and
vigorous nutriment.
Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart.
