A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how the...
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a d...
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a f...
What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in survival and, ultimately, reproduction. This morality requires only that we be guided by our developed conscience (or "moral sense") ...
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?
Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave peo...
I knew right then and there that I would become as courageous as I needed in order to keep him safe. I thought of the soldiers and bullets that I hid from in Asmara. I would stand and fight them to keep Fili safe.
You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you hav...
Always remember that those with very important paths to fulfill will always be forced by life into the fear of the very things that their true paths consist of, in order to prevent the destiny from ever happening. Or perhaps, in order to strengthen t...
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.
True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
