Accord Quotes

Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.

My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.

Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.