#oral

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#doing #every #found #freedom #grow

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#enjoy #live #morality #purpose #suffer

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. ↗

— William Winwood Reade

#buddhism #catholic #could #mankind #masses

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#also #cannot #cell #cell research #consistent

Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#assembled #binding #denied #denies #either

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. ↗

— Robert Reich

#better #better job #crisis #doing #instead

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. ↗

— Robert Reich

#arab world #authority #high-tech #important #losing

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle. ↗

— George A. Romero

#bad guys #chuckle #comics #dc #got

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#man #menace #mind #morals #society

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american public #announce #criticism #morally #must