Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is...
The Christian message has a moral challenge. If the message is true, the moral challenge has to be accepted. So God is not a fit object for man’s detached scrutiny. You cannot fix God at the end of a telescope or a microscope and say “How interes...
States are not moral agents.
Money has no moral opinions.
Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
I don't like movies that are morally simple.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Intelligence is a moral category.
Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
