Moral Purity Quotes

• Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Motherhood, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.159, A&C Black

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• To the pure all things are pure!

  Marcel Proust

  Purity, Chastity, Confidence In Others

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.1081, Wordsworth Editions

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• Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

  Tad R. Callister

  Men, Self, Dresses

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Caring, Social Taboos

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• Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with.

  Shane Claiborne

  Religious, Creating, Our World

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.

  Rich Lowry

  Country, Real, War

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• The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid.

  Antonin Artaud

  Order, Theatre, Passionate

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press

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• Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.

  Tony Kushner

  Dream, Expression, People

  "Tony Kushner, Radical Pragmatist". Interview with Ben Greenman, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2003.

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