#moral

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#athletic #both #burdens #character #consists

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people. ↗

— James Larkin

#morals #people #raised #sobriety

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enforcing #god #indigestion #morality #stomach

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? ↗

— Robert McNamara

#children #civilians #death #doing #had

Forty-five percent of Iraqi citizens think it is morally okay to attack American troops. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#american troops #attack #citizens #forty-five #iraqi

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#cheney #given #ground #high #high ground

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. ↗

— Henry Miller

#beliefs #customs #doctrines #ethics #import

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #i do #morally #people #situations

This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#believes #deeply #different #different place #disappointed