#oral

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. ↗

— Alfred Doblin

#cities #collective #colony #coral #group

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work. ↗

— Kenzaburō Ōe

#society #understanding #work #lifestyle

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#determined #early #females #fixed #genetically

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#impossible #morality #religion #superstition #without

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#body #deficiencies #existing #i #insight

There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace. ↗

— David Trimble

#denominations #ireland #main #moral #northern

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

A quiet conscience makes one strong! ↗

— Anne Frank

#integrity #morality #peace #spirituality #strength

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality. ↗

— Sam Harris

#morality #muslim #science