This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The law, like a good archer, should aim at the right measure of punishment, and in all cases at the deserved punishment.
Good | Law | Punishment | Right |
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
Education | Excellence | Important | Play | Right | Soul | Training | Will | Excellence | Child |
Seeing that all men desire happiness, and happiness, as has been shown, is gained by a use, and a right use, of the things of life, and the right use of them, and good fortune in the use of them, is given by knowledge, the inference is that everybody ought by all means to try and make himself as wise as he can.
Desire | Fortune | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Means | Men | Right | Wise |
The essence of the beautiful and the good... lies in right proportions.
Peter McWilliams, fully Peter Alexander McWilliams
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Acceptance | Action | Change | Difficulty | Evil | Good | Right | Will | World |
The only use of government is to repress the vices of man. If man were today sinless, tomorrow he would have the right to demand that government and all its evils should cease.
Government | Man | Right | Tomorrow | Government |
Then I must surely be right in saying that we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognize the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.
Greatness | Honor | Men | Qualities | Right | Will | Wisdom |
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.
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Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci NULL
Man precedes the State, and possesses, prior to the formation of any State, the right of providing for the sustenance of his body.
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Christian tradition has never upheld this right [to private property] as absolute and untouchable… The right to private property is subordinated to the right to common use, the fact that goods are meant for everyone.
Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Labor | Man | Nature | Patience | Promptness | Property | Right | Thought | Thought |
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, of the statue right to vote, by those who never dared to think or to act.
Man was born to be rich, or grows rich by the use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. Cultivated labor drives out brute labor.
Labor | Man | Nature | Patience | Promptness | Property | Right | Thought | Thought |