“A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.” IfsLongActingMoralTeachComedySeriousPleaseScene Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.” IfsHumansWellsSoulStatesReasonPhilosophyAbleMoralChristianitySeriousPhilosophicalVariousIntellectGuidesPossessedFoundersFinestHuman SoulPathwaysPossessingMemorabilia Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are purely stylistic... I don't see why it should be excluded as a serious subject.” IfsShouldFeelingsMoralSubjectsSeriousPornographyExcludedCompunctionSerious Subjects Author:David Salle
“People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity.” PeopleIfsSoulEnoughValuesMistakeMoralSeriousHigherPerceptionOrdinaryDignityTechniqueIdiotSensitiveBitternessScreamOrdinary People Author:Marshall McLuhan
“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.” MenArtArtistCultureEasyDifferencesCommonMoralOne ThingTalentSeriousGeniusFolksAffectionObviousCommunicateSpitePatrioticGreat ArtBe A ManSuspiciousPopular CultureDickensChaplinFolk ArtRemingtonDeep Affection Author:Gilbert Seldes
“Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.” PeopleKnowsBelieveKindBeautifulFacesEvilEasyMoralWonderfulSeriousCreaturesConsequenceBiggerAgreeLionsCowardiceArenaOutrageTransfersImpotenceBeautiful Creatures Author:Greg Gutfeld
“When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.” ProblemCultureSocialReligiousEducationMoralSeriousDrugRacismAddictionGapsDrug AddictionDrug AddictSocial ProblemsMoral Education Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“I think what you have to realise is that our generation is the first generation since its sexual awakening has come into the world and realised that sex can mean, ultimately, death. That has had a very serious effect on social morals and on the way people deal with each other. As we approach the millennium, people are getting more and more confused and contact is getting more and more sanitised, so there's a lot more mental games being played.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFirstsMeanGamesSocialSexDealsMoralGenerationsEffectsSeriousApproachAwakeningContactConfusedRealisingRealisedOur GenerationMillenniumBeing Played Author:Brian Molko
“To meet the serious issues facing us in our respective communities today, we must be examples of virtue and righteousness ourselves and choose today to take our stand on the moral issues which threaten us.” TodayCommunityMoralVirtueIssuesExampleSeriousRighteousnessMoral IssuesSerious Issues Author:Nathan Eldon Tanner
“Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.” MoralSeriousBlameJudgementIsisBritsMoral Judgement Author:Tzipi Livni
“It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic books were. I always liked how they were half way between literature and the cinema. I liked the visuals and I liked the simplicity of a certain type of moral dilemma.” WayKindBookKidsCertainLiteratureSoundHalfMoralSeriousTypeSimplicityComicCinemaVisualsImpressedComic BookDilemmaHalf WayMoral Dilemma Author:Walter Hill
“The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying attention. It's time for us to really get serious about political education and about our own moral education in this moment, and to seize this opportunity to organize and be in deep dialogue with a whole lot of people who never even thought about being politically engaged or active before. There's real hope there and real opportunity.” PeopleRealMomentsPoliticalOpportunityAttentionMoralSeriousAgreeDialoguePay AttentionOrganize Author:Michelle Alexander