#oral

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#entertainment #married #moral #passion #propaganda

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the heavens, they would drive his ambassadors from the earth. In a lesser sphere, that is why many men sneer at virtue--because it makes vice uncomfortable. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #conscience #morality #faith

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#ensure #every #integrity #moral #moral obligation

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#celebrated #certain #code #could #create

If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#crime #decay #down #going #moral

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland. ↗

— George Combe

#cases #character #conducting #divine #gentlemen

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ↗

— Confucius

#compassion #courage #men #moral #moral qualities

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#follow #game #heart #hit #i

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#drunk #facts #fighting #ignorant #instincts