Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

We are born for the happiness. We are living for the happiness. To be happy we have to be morally free. To be morally free we have to treat the humanity with uncompromising sincerity.

Debasish Mridha

While the West has enjoyed overwhelming global power, its moral preachings have been legitimised, and in effect enforced, by that power. But as that power begins to ebb, then the morality of its actions will be the subject of growing scrutiny and cha...

Martin Jacques

School districts around the country, and the taxpayers that support them, have a moral right to the information the NFL might have concerning the medical aspects of the game, and to assess the risks to the students in their charge. Colleges have a mo...

Charlie Pierce

Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Alison Gopnik

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

Auberon Herbert

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese ...

Harry Shearer

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

Larry Elder

Own your creativity. You are creative with the same juice that flows in all of life. The question is not whether you are creative enough but whether you will free yourself to express it.

Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1954-1981, With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines, and Anecdotes

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

The trick for business professionals, and for educators, is to present bodies of information so compelling that the audience does this (encoding) on their own, spontaneously engaging in deep and elaborate encoding.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.

Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!

Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!

If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.

How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be: The 25 Principles of Success

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation