Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

I lock eyes but see no flicker of humanity. Out of shot, bullets fly and bodies fall. In shot, there is only death. War is forced upon these people, and they take up arms naïvely. They fight for a cause, but die for another. Wars are fucked but they...

****: The Anatomy of Melancholy

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the romanticizers, whose bait is nothing more than the wishful insinuation that we have done no harm. Speaking a public language of propaganda, uninfluen...

The Hidden Wound

It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise or unwise, moral or immoral. He produces what the consumers want. In this sense he is amoral. He manufactures whiskey and gu...

Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious context, in the assurance that they could live a life of their own as "humanistic" ethics, has...

Judaism and Modern Man - An Interpretation of Jewish Religion

God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil. When he chooses to do evil, he does not thereby countervail the sovereign will ...

The Knowledge of the Holy

I’ve always found the idea of 'saving' your virginity intriguing: it’s not as if we’re packing our Saran-wrapped hymens away in the freezer, after all, or pasting them in scrapbooks. But packed-away virginities aside, the interesting — and da...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. The large house in which we live demands that we transform this world-wide neighborhood into a world –...

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are infinitely many possible worlds each of which has its own worldview, norm and values, moralities and so on. Only one of them is actual for each individual. Theological and conservative systems forget the existence of other alternative possi...

Elmar Hussein

An abolitionist is, as I have developed that notion, one who (1) maintains that we cannot justify animal use, however “humane” it may be; (2) rejects welfare campaigns that seek more “humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek ...

Gary L. Francione

You don't become the character.

Peter Fonda

You can escape into a character.

John Candy

My character is not flawless.

Breckin Meyer

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Collected Sketches and Lyrics

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Deeply Odd

We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.

A Death in Vienna

I'll leave you two alone. Morality might be contagious. -Captain Tagon

Emperor Pius Dei

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

Effortless

The moral high ground proved to be one hell of an aphrodisiac...

Fresh Cut: A Story of Despair and Flowers

Artha - attainment of wealth, material prosperity, Its realization on righteous and moral basis be; - 5 -

Goals of Life

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Babbitt