Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.

Those who are most pious and noble tend to be the least tolerant.

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.