“It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.” MenNeedsFirstsMayDoeFactsFeelingsLife IsSufferingAnimalMoralViolenceHe ManCreaturesElementsMercyHorribleCrushLoftyLiving CreaturesAbstinenceMoral Life Author:Leo Tolstoy
“I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.” ThinkingMoralLiedNever LieMoral Life Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be marooned, to be shut up in a solitary cell, to inhabit a lighthouse, or to camp alone in a forest, these have always seemed to me afflictions too heavy to be borne, even in imagination. A state in which conversation exists not, is for me an air too empty of oxygen for my lungs to breathe it.” YearsKindStatesImaginationCompanyMoralAirLoversConversationEmptyHeavyBreatheForestsCellsDependentMatureCampsSolitaryShut UpAfflictionOxygenLungsPulseLighthouseGregariousMoral Life Author:Edmund Gosse
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.” PeopleRealValuesOrderMoralSocietyHard WorkMoralityCostPicksLaborHarderValuableLive LifeExpensesFarmersEstatesFarmingCompetenceRottenAdjustmentCompetentWork HarderCost Of LivingPurgingMoral LifeEnterprisingSystemic Change Author:Andrew Mellon
“Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.” SocialMoralPrinciplesVirtueIntentionMutualEstablishmentTruestBenevolentExtendingMasonsMasonicFreemasonryMoral Life Author:Andrew Jackson
“In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.” WellsStillsLiteratureMoralVirtueOffersOur TimePrizeOccupationConceptionSageAffiliationMoral Life Author:J. M. Coetzee
“One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality” WayFeelingsRealityCultureSpeakMoralStruggleSeeingConnectedIntuitionNew WaysMoral LifeNew Cultures Author:Antonio Gramsci