Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Jeff Koons

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

Alanna: The First Adventure

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.

America And The Young Intellectual

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Atlas Shrugged

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

I Am a Japanese Writer

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Killosophy

Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

The Roots of American Order

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.

Shaping the dream

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Man On Fire

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Let Loose the Dogs

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

Limitations

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Lord of Misrule

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Slavery in Massachusetts

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics