Best moral & long Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.”

Long Past Political Moral Healthy Solutions Aspect Tools Women's Health

Author:Martha Plimpton

“The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.”

Long Enough Today Results Moral Boys Particular Objectives Maximum

Book:The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

Source: The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography

“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.”

“Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.”

Ifs Long Acting Moral Teach Comedy Serious Please Scene

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors.”

Source: The Undiscovered Self

“My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.”

Long Reading Religious Moral Branches Dogma Confined

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.”

Believe Long Two Hate Names Given Sides Moral Authority Terror Ecstasy Love And Hate Epitome Moral Authority

Book:Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

“[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.”

People Long Whole Moments Government Jobs Spiritual Church Moral Bounds Permanent Decency Solace Spiritual Leadership

Author:James A. Michener

“Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.”

Men Way Long Self Seems Action Moral Ambition Conscious Resources Rejects Exhausted Recovering Respiration

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.”

Long Spiritual Hours Moral Worship Grandeur Worship God Audacity Humiliate Forfeit

Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

“So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.”

Long War Might Realizing Situation Moral Failing Function Heat Substitutes Propose

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.”

Ifs Men Years Long Stills Law Grows Growth Moral He Man Structure Stuck Consistent Atoms Smallest Consistency Ruts Stuck In A Rut

Author:Mark Twain

“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.”

Mind Children Long Made Facts Eye Desire Values Interest Moral Failing Demand Remains Harm Contact Acquire Egocentric

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.”

Source: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

“The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in so doing generalized, systematized, gave moral sanction to what had emerged haphazardly, incompletely and insensibly, from the chaotic factionalism of colonial politics.”

Long Ideas Facts Moral Conditions Creating Sanctions Chaotic Colonists

Author:Bernard Bailyn

“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

“The moral decisions of others should be treated with respect, as long as such decisions do not conflict with the principle of tolerance.”

Should Long Decision Moral Principles Atheism Conflict Positive Atheism Tolerance Treated Moral Decisions

Author:Karl Popper

“Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures. But, insofar as science can understand what we're made of, and what we're related to, the Darwinian revolution completely revised our ideas about who we are and what we're related to and how long we've been here and why we're on this Earth.”

Mean Long Made Ideas Earth Moral Our Lives Revolution Creatures Related Who We Are Life Means

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.”

Long States Social Natural Moral Economic Abuse Mechanism Economic Systems Erosion

Book:When Corporations Rule the World

Source: When Corporations Rule the World

“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”

Way Long Soul Character Seems Able Spirit Brain Known Moral Class Remains Possession Alcohol Foolish Contact Insane Substance Marvelous Transforming Entrances

Author:Timothy Shay Arthur

“the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.”

Long Lasts Moral Effects Discipline Prove Clubs Compulsion

Book:A Montessori Mother

Source: A Montessori Mother

“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”

Long Action Values Evil Moral Taken Benefits Oneself Altruism Criteria Moral Values Beneficiaries Anything Goes

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“A long-established occupation may form the very foundations of the moral life, that the art with which a man has solaced his toil may be the salvation of his uncertain temperament.”

Men May Long Art Form Moral Foundation Salvation Occupation Uncertain Toil Temperament Moral Life

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.”

Long Self Social Simple Animal Moral Drug Drinking Self Respect This Day Intolerance Willpower Alcoholism Alcoholics Fiber Bewildered Moral Fiber

Book:The Quality of Mercy

Source: The Quality of Mercy

“'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of the Universe. He rewards or punishes them according to their general character. The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.”

World Long Character Universe Nations Community Liberty Moral Virtue Wise This World Rewards Revelations Righteousness Rulers Extinction

Author:Samuel Adams

“A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.”

People Ifs Long Brain Moral Trouble Groups Asking If I Could Reformers

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.”

Needs Mean Persons Long Might Action Form Evil Results Moral Trump Europe Simplicity Priorities Appeals Assumption Dimensions Aesthetic Efficiency Assessment Evaluation Good Evil Assessing

Author:Raymond Geuss

“Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.”

“People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.”

People Want Believe Long Political Moral Issues Focus Method Indirect Political Issues

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“The worst of this ever growing cancer of Statism [ie big 'paternal' government - socialism, communism and fascism] is its moral effect. The country is rich enough to stand its frightful economic wastage for a long time yet, and still prosper, but it is already so poverty-stricken in its moral resources that the present drain will quickly run them out.”

“The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.”

“My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.”

Long Moral Constitution Destroyed Manners Long Ago Bylaws

Author:Clarence Darrow

“America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.”

Knows Kind Long Has Beens Country Bigs Might America Form Moral Long Time Capitalism Impulse Contradiction Aggressive Consumerism Civics

Author:David Foster Wallace

“So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.”

“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”

Men Long Has Beens Law Evil Moral Virtue Rights Subjects Morality Prejudice Vices Possession Civil Rights Charm Good And Evil Arbitrary Deprived Constraints Yoke Moral Law Freedom To Choose

Author:Flora Tristan

“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”

“The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.”

People Way Children Littles Long Enough Helping Home Lost Moral Violence Crime Activity Police Busy Traffic Automobile Preventing Old Lady Robbery Clergymen Way Home Inquiring Lost Child

Author:Alan Watts

“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.”

Source: Les Belles Images

“So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.”

Men Believe Persons Long Character I Believe Moral Virtue Effects Villain Cleanliness Filth Moral Character

Book:Essays, political, economical and philosophical

Source: Essays, political, economical and philosophical

“Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.”

“The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the one hand, there are expressions of admiration for the reportedly virgin mother of Jesus, but other portions of scripture speak quite accommodatingly of polygamy.”

Long Hands Mother Jesus Speak Social Sex Moral Expression Lists Scripture Admiration Portions Virgins Polygamy Unclear

Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.”

Ifs Kind Long Ideas Law Values Moral Democracy Subjects Creation Creator Objectives Rulers Laws Of Nature Educator Ethos Moral Values Moral Law Subjectivism

Book:Christian Reflections

Source: Christian Reflections

“We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

Long Moving Universe Justice Moral Moving Forward Arcs Audacious

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.”

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