#oral

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

Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children. ↗

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#example #morality #parenting #young #education

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize the potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#lasting #lasting peace #let us #long #mankind

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#behavioral #biological #children #dads #did

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#afraid #been #community #driving #faith

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#best #exist #hear #lot #lousy

Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#human #human being #known #morality #needs

I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#go #homer #i #know #now