#moral

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#philosophy #politics #life

Distraction leads to Destruction! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#lesson-for-life #life-lessons #moral #philosophy #wisdom

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#boost #civilians #fact #i #i think

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#called #death #even #into #moral

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#certainty #creative #formulated #his #judgment

No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties marrying girls in their teens or early twenties have no bearing on Lolita whatever. Humbert was fond of "little girls"—not simply "young girls." Nymphets are girl-children, not starlets and "sex kittens." Lolita was twelve, not eighteen, when Humbert met her. You may remember that by the time she is fourteen, he refers to her as his "aging mistress. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#morality #nymphets #starlets #age

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

#because #capricious #death #death penalty #i

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#i #i do #morality #religion #value

If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is to cut government and reduce taxes, you don't understand America. America is a moral enterprise, not an economic enterprise. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#country #cut #economic #economy #enterprise

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #better #both #centuries #menace