Quotes of: Moral-qualities Keyword

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.

Emma Thompson

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Barbara Castle

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

Stephen Bayley

These are early days, Trot, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year. You have chosen freely for yourself and you have chosen a very pretty and very affectionate creature. It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too – of course I k...

David Copperfield

Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the microscope. You’d find life under the glas...

Fahrenheit 451

Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those wonderful qualities that we associate with youth: curiosity, playfulness, eagerness, fearlessness, warmth, energy. Unlike t...

Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders

He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his t...

Bleak House

I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't s...

The Secret Life of Prince Charming

For this reason a prince ought to take care that he never lets anything slip from his lips that is not replete with the above-named five qualities, that he may appear to him who sees and hears him altogether merciful, faithful, humane, upright, and r...

The Prince

We like to think of individuals as unique. Yet if this is true of everyone, then we all share the same quality, namely our uniqueness. What we have in common is the fact that we are all uncommon. Everybody is special, which means that nobody is. The ...

How to Read Literature

We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads. So too often what passes for literary criticism is "I couldn't picture that guy", or "I liked that part", or "thi...

John Green

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

Er ist wieder da

The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.

A 'Final Theory' of God

The Church today is more likely to alienate than to seduce...

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

The Book of Tea

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

Aaron Paul

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Kenneth Clark

Constitutional democracy can only survive if the people of our nation are moral.

The Angels' Footpath

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

An Ideal Husband

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality