“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.” MomentsStoriesOrderCultureMoralCivilizationIndiaComplexesTalesIslamicDelicateEvidentConquestDiscouragingBarbariansInvadingMultiplying Author:Will Durant
“But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.” WorldFirstsHeartStoriesProblemSinPoorPayMoralIssuesConsequenceClimateClimate ChangeAround The WorldGlobal WarmingPay The PriceAffluentMoral Issues Author:Jim Wallis
“The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.” MadeStoriesJesusReligiousMoralBetrayalMade ItSentimentsViciousPersistentJudasRationale Author:Elaine Pagels
“I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.” StoriesActionSpiritualDealsMoralHighestStandardsProductionsFables Author:Walt Disney
“We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.” WantGivingTryingStoriesFunViewsMoralObviousEntertainmentPoint Of ViewThemeWorthwhilePublic Good Author:Walt Disney
“I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.” ThinkingTryingKindChildrenCharacterStoriesKidsEvilPerfectMoralTeachCrazyTalesGood And EvilHappy EndingsGood StoryFairytale Author:Angelina Jolie
“A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a teaching of our hearts. That’s the power of story.” FeelsHeartStoriesMoralTeachingAnxietyConceptsCommunicatePower Of Stories Author:Marshall Ganz
“The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.” HumansStoriesLife IsSimpleMoralAimExpectedBeing TrueHuman Life Book:The Nemesis of Faith Source: The Nemesis of Faith
“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.” IfsNeedsWellsDoeEndsFactsStoriesViewsMoralWiseStyleDeserveMethodIllSeekingHistorianTruthfulMaximsNarration Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920
“There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.” PeopleThinkingStoriesCoursesBrainWonderMoralSunDangerWallGoes OnCivilizationNormalSickDressesWesternUntrueWestern CivilizationAccusingOff The WallAccusing Me Author:Marilyn Manson