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“The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.”

Sometimes Matter Seems Fighting Animal Attention Moral Abuse Injustice Cruelty Instance Agendas Overlooked

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.”

Inspirational Humans Values Attention Moral Roles Calling Demand Elements Approach Technique Practicals Engaged Restoration Human Values Technicians

Author:Christopher Lasch

“He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.”

Men May Light Poor Attention Moral Rich Higher Creatures Draws Logic Riches Proof Worms Glitter Rich Man Worthlessness Glow Worms

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.”

Heart Seems Life Is Attention Moral Ignored Moral Education

Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral atmosphere quite different from that which we breathe in the world, and in the world's literature.”

World Looks Different Feelings Literature Attention Moral Impossible Ordinary Bible Breathe Atmosphere

Author:Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.”

“Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.”

“While one could hardly say that philosophers have given much attention to the place that the concept of evil has among our moral concepts, they have done so more in the last ten or so years than they had before. I have, therefore, often wondered why there has been so little discussion of goodness. In Search of Goodness is not only an exception: it is an admirable one. It is original and provocative, impressive both in its breadth and depth.”

Years Littles Has Beens Done Lasts Evil Given Attention Moral Ten Goodness Concepts Originals Depth Philosopher Discussion Exception Impressive Admirable Provocative Breadth

Author:Raimond Gaita

“Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.”

Want Ends Attention Moral Faults Perseverance

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.”

People World Needs Stills Book Character Strong Differences Pay Attention Moral Internet Research Meaningful Magazines Pay Attention Contribution Our World Moral Character

Author:Zig Ziglar

“But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain our moral commitment as the country's conscience would naturally want us to do.”

Want Country Attention Leader Moral Steps Poverty Depends Conscience Commitment Want U Step Up Transient

Author:John Edward

“[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.”

Men Should Mind Character Body Law Interest Attention Moral Dependent Distracted Calmness Exemplary Coolness Great Patience

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: Diary, with passages from an autobiography. Notes of debates in the Continental Congress, in 1775 and 1776. Autobiography

“A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.”

Giving Humans May Artist Attention Moral Materials Surprise Selfish Human Life Sentiments Great Art Great Artist Raw Materials

Book:The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need to be sure that we're looking worldwide. And it is in our security interest, as well as our moral interest, to pay attention to the rest of the world.”

Knows World Needs Wells Interest Pay Attention Moral Security Disease Edges Pay Attention Borders

Author:Laura Bush

“The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.”

“I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.”

Believe Ideas Reality Used Individual I Believe Attention Moral Mark Active Agents Characteristics

Book:The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

Source: The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts

“The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.”

Country Attention Moral Teacher Influence Example Discipline England Towns Size Iron Magician Rail Punctuality

Author:Samuel Smiles