#oral

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what. ↗

— Jack Wagner

#count #down #father #get #greatest

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. ↗

— Alan Watts

#buddhism #cosmic #down #idea #laid

It's a morality film, and it poses the question "What would you do?" I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#atmosphere #did #director #film #help

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. ↗

— David Attenborough

#exterminate #moral #question #right #species

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

#companion #image #infinite #justice #law

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. ↗

— James Chanos

#between #big #big difference #difference #falls

The terrible error in the course of human civilization is undoubtedly the defective judgment that allowed religious authorities usurp the foundation of societal morality, in which all collective ethics of humankind must take a cause. This appalling blunder is comparable only to assigning the leper exclusive franchise to run beauty clinics in the society; this can only lead to cycles upon cycles of common infection syndrome. ↗

— Adebowale Ojowuro

#ethics-and-moral-philosophy #freethought #new-book #religion #scepticism

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#only #ordinary #ordinary people #people

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ↗

— Vine Deloria, Jr.

#connects #does #equivalent #knowledge #link

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

#i #made #morally #myself #paint