Making weapons is what we know how to do best, the supreme achievement of late-twentieth-century American civilization. To this blessed work we assign our finest intellect and the largest share of our treasure, and in the magnificence of an aircraft carrier or a cruise missile we find our moral and aesthetic equivalent of the Sistine ceiling and Chartres Cathedral. —Lewis Lapham More about this quote Tags: weapons morality achievement America civilization missiles Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. —Julia Child More about this quote Tags: morality nature deception food eating Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: spirituality fear cowardice morality fearlessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thieves punish the little ones. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: justice morality stealing thievery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: writing quality books morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: destruction morality psychology indignation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When someone behaves like a beast, he says, "After all, one is only human." But when he is treated like a beast, he says, "After all, one is human. —Karl Kraus More about this quote Tags: error morality fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say, "Here is the sin that makes the public sin. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: sin morality government interests Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for. —Jerry Rubin More about this quote Tags: politics life morality voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. —Immanuel Kant More about this quote Tags: action law morality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: morality principles flexibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Excuse me, sir; I cannot consent to receive pay for services I do not render. —Robert E. Lee, explaining his rejection of a ten-thousand-dollar-a-year salary to act as titular head of an insurance company after the Civil War More about this quote Tags: morality money work service Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: morality conscience men wives Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the vanguard of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. —John B. Gough More about this quote Tags: history privilege morality suffering nobility heroes conflict minority Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: politics morality money work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email