Best Moral Failure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. One can judge objectively to what extent a person has succeeded in his task, to what degree he has realized his potentialities. If he has failed in his task, one can recognize this failure and judge it for what it is - a moral failure.”

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Author:Erich Fromm

“The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.”

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Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.”

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Author:Charles Colson

“Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.”

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Author:Max Anders

“I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human form. I respond that I do better by portraying traces of character and intentions of human volition that no mug or body shot can ever exude.”

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Author:Robert Polidori

“The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.”

“What sort of love is this love that we have for countries? What sort of country is it that will ever live up to our dreams? What sort of dreams were these that have been broken? Isn't the greatness of great nations directly proportionate to their ability to be ruthless, genocidal? Doesn't the height of a country's 'success' usually also mark the depths of its moral failure?”

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Author:Arundhati Roy

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”

Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

“The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.”

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Book:God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it

Source: God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get it

“... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.”

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.”

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Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.”

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Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.”

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Author:D. A. Carson

“You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty”

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Author:Ela Bhatt

“It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.”

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Book:The Secret of Happiness

Source: The Secret of Happiness

“The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.”

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Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You are a totally loved moral failure.”

Moral Moral Failure

Author:Timothy Keller

“Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.”

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Author:Benjamin Watson