#oral

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#becoming #bittersweet #flowed #had #happiness

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance. ↗

— Benny Hinn

#body #eternal #god #heals #importance

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#honor #lack #morals #people #poisoned

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#becomes #blatant #cloak #cowardice #dares

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #attitude

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#morality #reading #writing #beauty

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#halo #indignation #moral

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#i #idealist #into #make #me

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#car #cigarettes #driving #immoral #other