Lasting happiness can only be achieved through cultivation of soul and mind. And cultivating our souls and minds requires us to live with moral purpose.
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Quotes tagged ‘Morality’
Our homelessness crisis is not a crisis of scarcity, but a crisis of moral clarity.
Conservatives used to care too much about values and republicanism to buy ends-justify-the-means logic. But it increasingly appears that political expedience now outweighs basic morality. At least one side of the political spectrum seemed to care about truth. Now both sides are competing to see who…
Sometimes a lie isn’t wrong if it’s for the good of someone that you love.
— Oscar Balderrama, Wendy Mericle, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com
You see, up in the Bronx that which is wrong can seem right, and right seem wrong.
— T Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com
The search for the middle is rooted in conflict avoidance and denial.
There are two kinds of morality—the kind of morality that one imposes on oneself and the kind of morality that one imposes on others. For the first kind of morality, that is, for self-restraint, I have the greatest respect. The second kind of morality I do not respect except when it constitutes self…
Damn. You played the morality card.
— Chris Ord, Matt Corman, Auggie Anderson, Christopher Gorham, imdb.com
What’s the point of stopping Savage if we only become as immoral as he is in the process?
— Marc Guggenheim, Ray Utarnachitt, Dr. Martin Stein / Firestorm, Victor Garber, imdb.com
Soldiers can’t question legality or morality in the moment. That’s a way to get yourself killed.
'You can't use that strength as a protective wall around you. There's always going to be something stronger that can overcome your fortress. At least in principle.' 'Strength itself becomes your morality.'
Jack: Lemon, obviously I can’t approve of someone I’ve never met. Liz: Yeah, well, I’m not letting you meet Criss because you won’t approve of him. Jack: Well then I guess this is a catch-22, although I don’t know for sure because I refuse to read literature that questions the morality of war.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him. What the little fellow hears at home does not ten…
Everything was disparaged—the nation, because it was held to be an invention of the 'capitalist' class (how often I had to listen to that phrase!); the Fatherland, because it was held to be an instrument in the hands of the bourgeoisie for the exploitation of' the working masses; the authority of th…
If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.
Man cannot speak for us—because he has been educated to believe that we differ from him so materially, that he cannot judge of our thoughts, feelings and opinions by his own. Moral beings can only judge of others by themselves—the moment they give a different nature to any of their own kind they utt…
Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small…
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.