#oral

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#every #impossible #journalism #journalist #moral

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#matter #real #spirit #temporal #unreal

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#moral-courage #right #right-and-wrong #courage

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

#become #beginning #corps #correspondents #days

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#come #enter #fatal #grave #into

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#business #dictating #i #maintained #morality

Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. Like pulling on a Missoni sweater over Trussardi slacks and Pollini shoes, you can now enjoy hybrid styles of morality. It's the way of the world -- philosophy starting to look more and more like business administration. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#morality #philosophy #society #business

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #morality #freedom

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#depend #does #enterprise #great #moral

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#good #good fortune #life #lottery #moral