#oral

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#characters #go #hope #hoping #moral

Politics have no relation to morals. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#morals #relation

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#failure #imagination #moral #self-defense #war

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#cannot #challenge #day #get #go

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#i think #lied #life #lived #moral

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#come #decay #dr #housewives #i

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#balance #covering #i #i think #important

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism