Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.

Gerald R. Ford

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

Henry A. Wallace

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

Atul Gawande

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Aldous Huxley

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

Auberon Herbert

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Daniel Barenboim

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Life

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Walter Kirn

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

Felice Picano

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

Charles Eastman

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Henry James

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

Chiang Kai-shek

Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a religion, the parent is effec...

Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individual...

East of Eden

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual) is never to be confused with it...

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he exposed the world to a momentous discovery . For the first time in history, human beings were seen not as creatures of divine origin, but instead, as a product of nature, an animal li...

Beyond Cosmic Dice: Moral Life in a Random World