Quotes of: Moral-courage Keyword

I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then m...

13 by Shanley

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense...

The Art of Loving

I want to understand the elements that compose courage in the same way I understand the periodic table. I feel that by knowing the periodic table of courage I can be courageous, at least periodically.

I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded...

On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living

Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love. So they became swingers. T...

Women

As you try to balance between the socialist and capitalist systems in the world, you will come up against the biggest problem facing humanity today. Jung wrote in 1938 "Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intel...

Anonymous

Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if we say to our hearts, 'don't jump about'; if we carry ourselves like heroes...

Peter Pan in Scarlet

One with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

Italian

One with the courage to laugh is the master of the world almost as much as the man who is ready to die.

Italian

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

...sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Islanders And, The Fisher Of Men

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Peter Boghossian

Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

Russell Brand

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Pope Shenouda III

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on.

Rebecca MacKinnon

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Auberon Herbert

The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.

C.S. Lewis

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

Julian Baggini

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

Jonathan Haidt

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

James Baldwin