“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?” LastsThreeHoursMoralFourKingsQueensDilemmaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisPassed AwayMoral Dilemma48 HoursKing Abdullah Author:David Letterman
“The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.” Has BeensLanguageStrongSexMoralFourInfluenceMovementResponsibleLegsMannersNervesOccupationWeekendBicycleCyclingDigestionGood DigestionStrong Legs Author:John Galsworthy
“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.” BookWarStoriesDreamMoralVisionFourTeachingOffersRevelationsNightmareApocalypsePlagueControversialEarthquakesHorsemenBook Of RevelationFour HorsemenDreams And NightmaresFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Author:Elaine Pagels
“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.” MenWritingStillsCountryStoriesOrderCitiesMoralFourWrittenHeardChildhoodStyleSceneAspectIntentionDareConvictionMaturityOld ManCensorshipChaptersIndifferentAdolescenceCentrePublic LifeMeannessParalysisDublin Author:James Joyce
“At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion.” BelieveTodayCertainJesusSexReligiousMoralIssuesFourPositionBuddhismFolksNobleAbortionDivinityBedroomHomosexuality Author:Stephen Prothero
“The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.” TwoLyingThreeHeavenInterestWealthMoralHellFourHappenedBloodEventsThousandBuiltNobleCleverRuinsOriginalityNew ThingsFragmentsImpressiveFablesImposingObscenityGood Moral Author:Mark Twain
“There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw.” CountryPoliticalPartyMoralFourRightsClaimsPropertyTrialsGuiltyBrandsCharacteristicsCensorshipExecutionDictatorshipOffenseSovereigntyOutrageMockPrivate PropertyOutlawPrerogativeForfeit Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.” ThinkingGovernmentActionFormLanguageNationsMoralFourCitizensRepublicanDemandStandardsAffairPopulationCriticalDebateEducatedCodeMutualResolutionEthicalManifestBeneficialCritical ThinkingForms Of GovernmentInitiateMoral Code Author:Frosty Wooldridge