“You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act.” IfsWorldTryingEyePoliticalResponsibilityMoralWillingHappeningsInjusticePolitical LifeMoral Life Author:Bill Ayers
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.” MenMindSeemsValuesOrderTurnsForceAcceptingMoralSacrificeWillingHe ManCapableStandardsSakeObjectivesPeace Of MindSubjectiveTheoreticalOpposing Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.” IfsFeelsDoePlaySeemsResultsMoralRolesParticularWillingPleaseStandardsObligationConsistencyMudPlease Me Author:Denzel Washington
“Men who scorn the idea of submission to the divine Will and are outraged by the notion of a God who requires submission are among the first to demand total submission to the process in which we are involved and seem to attach a kind of moral imperative to willing participation in it. Any other attitude, so they say, is reactionary or escapist or anti-social. Perhaps, after all, they have found a divinity to worship; and, if they have, the only charitable comment must be: God help them!” IfsMenFirstsKindIdeasHelpingSeemsFoundSocialProcessAttitudeMoralDivineWillingInvolvedDemandWorshipNotionDivinityCommentParticipationSubmissionScornImperativesCharitableReactionariesGod HelpOutragedAnti SocialEscapistsDivine Will Author:Charles le Gai Eaton
“Scientists are still trying to produce life in the laboratory, but it shouldn't be difficult if the laboratory assistant is pretty and willing.” IfsTryingStillsDifficultMoralProduceWillingScientistMannersLaboratoryAssistants Author:Laurence J. Peter
“It's said the religious right wants to force its faith on the public. But whose faith are we talking about?... Everyone who operates in the political arena wants to see their morals reflected in our laws and governmental institutions - including the National Organization of Women, the National Abortion Rights Action League, and the American Civil Liberties Union, whether or not they are willing to admit it.” WantSaidActionChristianLawPoliticalForceReligiousTalkingLibertyMoralRightsWillingOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsIncludingLeagueAbortionArenaCivil LibertiesAbortion Rights Author:Don Feder
“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.” EnoughSocialEasyGoalTermPayMoralEnvironmentWillingCitizensCostTaxesPerfectionCleanEnvironmentalConsumersEnterpriseDedicationPollutionRhetoricTaxpayersEcologicalCleaners Author:Richard M. Nixon
“In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.” IfsMoralWillingAuthorityArmyObedienceOfficersNonviolenceFiles Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.” MenMaySoulBodyMoralImpossibleWillingCapableHappeningsMiracleWingsAdd Book:Life and destiny Source: Life and destiny
“I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.” WorldWayBelieveSelfI BelieveNationsWishReligiousAcceptingMoralEnvironmentSacrificeWillingConceptsSakeConversionObligationOnenessItemsReligious FaithMoral Obligation Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.” ShouldWellsMeanSaidReasonLastsFormLeftMoralWillingMonthsSlaveryBlindFollySmokingDelightfulPipeGave UpSolaceFling Author:James M. Barrie
“I argue that I don't think it's a moral position to say that civilization is going to collapse, and that's okay. Because that would cause the deaths of billions of people. It's certainly not something I'm willing to accept.” PeopleThinkingCausesAcceptingMoralPositionWillingCivilizationOkayArguingBillionsCollapse Author:Margaret D. Klein
“More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.” PeopleWantNeedsValuesFightingPartyMoralClearMovementWillingReturnLet MeTraditionalFree MarketMoral ValuesFighting For Freedom Author:Mike Pence
“We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.” WayNeedsYearsMoralWillingJudgmentYears AgoGrandmaGrandpaMoral Judgment Author:Steven Tyler
“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.” MoralDangerousWillingLosingMudPuddlesMud Puddles Author:Gertrude Stein