#oral

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#always #books #counselors #disinterested #hand

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. ↗

— Gary Ross

#anarchy #began #confusion #down #enjoy

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal! ↗

— Robert Orben

#corporal #ever #general #general motors #i

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right. ↗

— George Osborne

#dynamic #economy #education #get #i

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. ↗

— Clive Owen

#every #full #going #himself #indefensible

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#cannot #ceremony #divest #gives #i

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#become #dangerous #man #morally #nationally

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#accurately #cannot #conflicts #debates #frame

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#commandment #done #every #express #god