Quotes of: Moral-evil Keyword

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Howard Dean

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made.

Norman McLaren

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

Ace in the Hole

A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.

Hope for Man: an optimistic philosophy and guide to self-fulfillment

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands: People in Need of Change Helping People in Need of Change

Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant.

The Ingenious Judge Dee

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

The Interpretation of Murder

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

Into the Wild

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Reading Between the Lines

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

Reflexions, Ou Sentences Et Maximes Morale

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Mudwoman

Men, some to business take, some to pleasure take; but every woman is at heart a rake

Moral Essays

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Mother Night

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

Minor Poems

[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

Lear

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

In the Shadow of the Mountains

Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger