Pastoral Resources

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.