Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.

The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Lay Morals

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

The Leadership of Muhammad

A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?

LITTLE BLACK PIECES OF DYNAMITE INSIDE MY SKULL

Morality existed only in action. It arose out of action: was formed and tested in action: expressed itself in action. That was why we mustn't cheapen it with words

The Sleep of Reason

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?

Searching for God Knows What

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Morality, Sir, is the monologue of the unexcited and the unexcitable, the revenge of the unsuccessful, the punishment of those who tried and failed, or who never had the courage to try at all.

To Play the King

Yet the same thing happens to the notions of morality. They are devised, at the start, as measures of expediency, and then given divine sanction in order to lend them authority.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

It is in reference to Pope Julius that Machiavelli moralizes on the resemblance between Fortune and women, and concludes that it is the bold rather than the cautious man that will win and hold them both.

The Prince

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

The People in the Trees

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

The Quest for Anna Klein: An Otto Penzler Book

Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

The Queen of Spades

Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.

Think a Second Time

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.

Undead Winter

Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism