#oral

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind. ↗

— Neko Case

#cautionary #christian ethic #ethic #i #impart

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#available #does #dying #even #former

It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the price for some of his actions. ↗

— Josh Charles

#character #edge #ethical #fun #his

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#broken #get #god #half #morally

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#compared #criminal #dangerous #entirely #essentially

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#comes #loses #morality #profit #seldom

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#electoral #human #intentions #more #nothing

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#anarchy #away #behind #civil #civil war

You see a moral in them? Do we have morals? ↗

— Joel Coen

#morals #see #them #you