Quotes of: Moral-character Keyword

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

J. J. Abrams

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the char...

Cate Blanchett

Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

Grant Morrison

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the ...

John Irving

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their cha...

Rhianna Pratchett

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of actor; I love situations where I've got a bit of room to improvise on the character.

Sharlto Copley

The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others’ lives.

Anuj Somany

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.

Annette Bening

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have to make.

The Elements of Moral Philosophy

If on a sinking ship out at sea, the moral law is to always help save women & children first...Why can't we apply the same morals here in our nation?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

War does not only kill soldiers and warriors. It also kills rules and moral values. No! Those cannot be killed. War kills the pretense at rules and moral values. It also kills the pretense of being human beings...

Arjun: Without a Doubt

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

So Far from God: A Journey to Central America

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

Humans are in delusion by default, and those who conquer their delusion can understand good and evil. Morality is an arbitrary abstract, it is not good or evil and those who provoke morality a righteous act, are still at the sideways of delusion and ...

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Paul Graham Essays

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

Prose: "Religio Medici" , "Hydriotaphia" , "Garden of Cyrus" , "Letter to a Friend" , "Christian Morals" and Selections from Other Works

Lenin refused to recognise moral norms established by slave-owners for their slaves and never observed by the slave-owners themselves; he called upon the Proletariat to extend the class struggle into the moral sphere too. Who fawns before the precept...

Leon Trotsky

I fully respect people whose personal religious or moral code has God giving, and taking, life. But there are moral and responsible people who wish to have the option of agreeing, with a qualified and registered physician, in advance of the point at ...

Margo MacDonald

We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conv...

Sam Harris