“Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.” FirstsMeanEndsMightForceMoralEnemyAirEconomicAchieveMilitaryPossibilityDirectDestructionOppositionCentreBattlefieldsAir ForceIndirectAir PowerHopping Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.” HumansSoulMoralAirPlantCarefulBreatheAtmosphereSurround Book:Lodore Source: Lodore
“Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability.” GivingLanguageMoralAirMoralityEthicsAimInstrumentsSatanRespectability Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
“I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.” WayWantGivingWritingHumansI CanEnoughStoriesMy OwnSecretMoralAirCostCuriosityLove StoryDataInfrastructureScratchesThin Air Author:James Ellroy
“Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.” HappensDesireMoralCuttingAirDangerUselessCodeAssumptionMaximsSymphonyStrandsMoral CodeFinaleSilencing Author:Jacques Barzun
“It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.” FirstsLightViewsMoralPrinciplesAirEqualAdvantageCurrentsValuableCoinsMaximsPlausibleCopper Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
“Of course the issue of ending war, and creating prosperity; they're overarching issues all the time. But right now, the challenge to this generation I believe is the climate crisis. It's a national security issue, it's a health issue in terms of clean air, it's a competitiveness issue in terms of innovation and it's a moral issue to preserve the planet for the next generation.” BelieveWarCoursesNextI BelieveTermChallengesMoralIssuesGenerationsAirSecurityPlanetsRight NowCreatingInnovationCrisisCleanClimateProsperityPreservesNational SecurityNext GenerationThis GenerationCompetitivenessMoral IssuesHealth IssuesClean Air Author:Nancy Pelosi