#moral

Imperfection is the doorway for which perfection may step through...perfection must be enforced, it must be soldered into the eyes of the blind, it must be severed methodically and sewn into the very warmth that keeps at bay the cold of the night. Imperfection is the fire that sets alight the dark passage through which perfection wanders...and we must embrace it all, we must have purpose to survive. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#death #dread #forgiveness #goal #greed

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#men

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#morals #self-improvement #inspirational

Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#arises #controversy #imply #majority #many

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#crystal #morality #our #scientists

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#far #give #given #i #i think

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#believe #god #i #i think #life

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. ↗

— Jane Rule

#conserving #invented #language #learned #like

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#air #begins #constructs #fiction #givens