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Morality
«The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
| About:
Experience,
Gifts,
Knowledge,
Morality,
Passion,
Reading
| Keywords:
cheap, consoled, consoles, consoling, distracting, distracts, excites, illumination, illuminations, wide
«There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Evil,
Life,
Morality,
Principles
| Keywords:
affords, assisted, assisting, assists, enhancing, fundamental, fundamental principle, hinder, hindered, Maintaining, namely, reverence
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Morality,
Truth,
World
| Keywords:
application, organized, violating
«There can be no high civility without a deep morality»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Civilization,
Morality
| Keywords:
civilities, civility
«The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Ethics,
Morality,
Society,
Utopia
| Keywords:
contradictions, Utopians
«Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
egoism, plausibly, self interest, self love, substituted