Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Philip Zimbardo

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture.

Sylvester Stallone

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Anna Jameson

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Quinet

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

Ian Mcewan

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

Kirk Cameron

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Christian Lous Lange

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Milan Kundera

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Edmund Wilson

Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

F. Sionil Jose

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

Gary Bauer

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

G.K. Chesterton

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Christopher Hitchens

People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

Chris Noth

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

Charles Sumner