#moral

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ↗

— Henry Adams

#luxury #morality #private

It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#mistake #than #worse

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and also it was a joy and I felt it was in the best interests of the child. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#because #best #best interests #care #child

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#only

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ↗

— Aristotle

#acts #become #brave #comes #doing

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. ↗

— James Baldwin

#longer #morality #power #relationship #subtle

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale. ↗

— Jack Adams

#attacked #attacks #effect #enterprise #gilbert

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. ↗

— Woody Allen

#compensated #developed #education #his #keenly

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. ↗

— Aristotle

#anxious #certain #character #citizens #disposition