Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

From the moment that man submits God to moral judgment, he kills Him his own heart.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

However, create a limit for your communications and interactions with the opposite sex and respect that limit, else you tear away your delicate moral fabrics.

Shaping the dream

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Man On Fire

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Let Loose the Dogs

It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.

Limitations

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Lord of Misrule

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

Slavery in Massachusetts

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Scientific Man Vs. Power Politics

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.

The Shadow of the Wind

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?" "You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.

Prophecy Girl

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

The Pursuit of Holiness

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Pretexts;: Reflections on literature and morality

Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal.

The Perception of Time... and its Measurement

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Perpetual Peace

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

The Prophet

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

Unclaimed

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Under the Greenwood Tree

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Vanity Fair