Best circumstances & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D.: With a Memoir of His Life [written by Himself]

“It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.”

Men Should Wells May Made Character Interest Wealth Numbers Moral Produce Amount Birth Circumstances Intelligent Prepared Educated Midst Sensations Employed Millennium Well Educated

Author:Robert Owen

“Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.”

Way Character Fall Energy Moral Poverty Failing Objects Circumstances Blessing Rewards Riches Convinced Triumph Misfortunes Suspicion Relieved Puritan

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results--the fragrance of celestial flowers--to the daily life of others.”

World Persons Beautiful Evil Results Moral Flower Circumstances Ugly Daily Life Fragrance Celestial Lives Of Others

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.”

Character Mother Moral Circumstances Morality Behavior Daughter Comment Virtuous Severe Notable Moral Character

Author:Antoine Rivarol

“If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.”

Ifs Individual Acting Compassion Moral Alive Circumstances Contrary Pity Selfishness

Author:African Spir

“The morals of men are more governed by their pursuits than by their opinions. A type of virtue is first formed by circumstances, and men afterwards make it the model upon which their theories are framed.”

Men Firsts Moral Opinion Virtue Theory Type Circumstances Models Pursuit Framed

Book:History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

Source: History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

“Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

Men Two Found Sides Quality Moral Virtue Circumstances Essentials Regard Faults Vices Merit Concealed Two Sides Badges

Book:History of English Literature

Source: History of English Literature

“As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.”

Men Able Literature Results Moral Circumstances Advantage Endure Civilized Savages Strain

Book:Books and Habits

Source: Books and Habits

“If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”

People Ifs World Character Government Evil Moral Millions Circumstances Selfish Grants Begging Famine Free Government Moral Evil

Author:Charles Trevelyan

“Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.”

Moral Steps Democracy Military Circumstances Officers Fiber Moral Courage Moral Fiber

Author:Michael Mullen

“The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare better under these circumstances than when the way is closed, as it is under socialism.”

Men Way Poor Moral Circumstances Socialism Observation Free Market

Author:Leonard Read

“There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.”

Mean School America Moral Taught Circumstances Ethics Absolutes Dependent Public School

Author:Ted Cruz

“I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way, as the 'normal state of affairs" - because they knew no other. We know how easy it is to shed, under such circumstances, the thin and frail veneer of civilization, not to mention the moral standards of which the Jews were presumed to be the world's teachers.”

Knows World Way Country States Humanity Easy Born Views Moral Worry Know How Teacher Generations Circumstances Civilization Normal Standards Affair Jew Shed Frail Younger Generation Veneer

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a moral circumstance that requires violence.”

Moral Violence Circumstances Refuse Anticipate

Author:George Friedman

“The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?" - was a matter of the pope jettisoning millennia of Catholic moral teaching. It was not. It was a specific response to the circumstances of a man who had repented and was trying to live an upright life.”

Men Trying Matter Moral Teaching Judging Circumstances Catholic Response Endure Narrative Phrases Pope Signatures

Author:George Weigel

“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Stills Self Lasts Order Universe Winning Moral Our Lives Stage Circumstances Harmony Breaths Obstacles Developing Constraints Peace Of Heart

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.”

People Ifs Happens Moving Moral Imagine Car Circumstances Morality Skills Creatures Assuming Intention Determine Outcomes Drivers Imagine That Incline

Author:Philip Zimbardo

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