Moral Quotes - Page 27

• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spiritual, Journey, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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• Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Strong, Character, Greatness

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• Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

  Emile Durkheim

  Men, Morality, Social

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• Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force.

  Jacob Needleman

  Real, Culture, Inquiry

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• The intellectual and moral failures common to America's general officer corps in Vietnam and Iraq constitute a crisis in American generalship. Any explanation that fixes culpability on individuals is insufficient. No one leader, civilian or military, caused failure in Vietnam or Iraq. Different military and civilian leaders in the two conflicts produced similar results. In both conflicts, the general officer corps designed to advise policymakers, prepare forces and conduct operations failed to perform its intended functions.

  Paul Yingling

  Military, Two, Iraq

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• When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

  Cal Thomas

  Daughter, Talking, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Religious, Stupid, Thinking

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• It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

  Phil Klay

  People, Asking, Seriousness

  "In 'Redeployment,' Former Marine Explores The Challenges Of Coming Home". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 20, 2015.

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• I do feel that even though I didn't grow up being a big sci-fi fan or comic books or superhero fan, I felt myself definitely gravitate towards these movies that have a high concept and yet they're giving you a moral dilemma within that.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Growing Up, Book, Giving

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• Genuine leadership is inherently moral. So the values chosen matter tremendously, and they must be values aligned with society (including the most universal statement of human values in history, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as clear values of sustainability evidenced in global declarations like the Stockholm and Rio Declarations.

  Chip Pitts

  Human Rights, Sustainability, Chosen

  "Corporate Social Responsibility: Wisdom or Window Dressing?". Interview with William Fisher, truthout.org. April 7, 2010.

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• I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to generate sympathy. I wanted to do the opposite - to offer up a life whose meanings can only be perceived through a tangle of desires, confusions, and textural details.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Thinking, Opposites, Confusion

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We can speak of politics, ethics, and in this way, speak about the world. But at the same time, it's always in a way that is totally nebulous and abstracted, this way of thinking about reality. And that's why I write the way I do - it's an almost immortal way to show dependence on the biological, the political, the moral parts of us. I say immortal because we now have to find new formats, new eloquences, and resolve within ourselves this "constructed" life, a life that is incomplete, imperfect.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Connections, Stamina

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings.

  Kola Boof

  Circles, Cleanliness, Circle Of Life

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

  Eric Drooker

  Advertising, Form, Bigs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.

  Elliott Colla

  Black And White, Division, Noir

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Past, Skins, Generations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

  Alissa Nutting

  Fall, Writing, Vegas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. We might feel those moral centers are mis-calibrated, but they are there and are the rudders that propel them. This makes reading my work a visceral roller coaster, 'cause the reader must embark on the journey of the protagonist equipped only with his or her own moral center.

  Chris Abani

  Real, Reading, Character

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think he should make foreign policy on the basis of peak,but I don't think it can be overstated that Israel has been an embattled democracy that has enjoyed the bipartisan and overwhelming support of Americans. It has been a moral force.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Israel, Support

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?

  Adam Ross

  Art, Powerful, Possibility Of Change

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."

  Joel Stein

  Army, Thinking, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?

  Kevin Keck

  Book, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

  Paul Bloom

  Judgment, Good Things, Bad Things

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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