Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H. L. Mencken

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

Joe Wright

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Novalis

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

Omar N. Bradley

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Paul Bettany

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

P. J. O'Rourke

The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

Ricardo Derose

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Tony Judt

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Timothy Noah

I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Johann Georg Zimmermann

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.

Lily Allen

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Laurence Sterne

The poor makes good morals. The rich always gives them way to be brain. say Bhutta

M.K. Bhutta

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

Marguerite Duras

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

Morris Gleitzman

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

Margaret Chase Smith

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Michael Shermer