Browsing Quotes With Tag: morality (10)
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The only control placed on us is self-control—self-control born of respect for the divine power this gift represents.
Speaker: Elder Jeffrey R. HollandSource: Personal Purity, Feb 2000Posted: 13 Jun 2016 at 6:53 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Money always has the potential to become a moral imperative unto itself. Allow it to expand, and it can quickly become a morality so imperative that all others seem frivolous in comparison.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Speaker: Theodore RooseveltPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant. We don’t know the answers, so we assume they must not exist. But they do exist. They are unclear and/or unfathomable, but they’re out there.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 17 Sep 2009 at 5:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Freedom fighters don’t always win, but they are always right.
Speaker: Molly IvinsSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:11 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A moral position is not a slogan, or wishful thinking. It doesn’t come from outside or above. It begins inside the heart… and grows from there.
Speaker: Anne LamottSource: bird by birdPosted: 16 Aug 2009 at 1:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Speaker: Martin Luther King Jr.Posted: 18 Mar 2009 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Speaker: Jane AustenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Speaker: Oscar WildeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 9:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!