#moral

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. ↗

— Phil Ochs

#art #attempt #defeat #even #expect

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#asian countries #been #countries #had #history

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#basis #chose #eternal #eternal peace #japanese

America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. ↗

— John Olver

#allies #america #bush #closest #closest friends

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent. ↗

— Luis Palau

#fail #morally #repent #worse #you

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. ↗

— Josh Billings

#life #making #making money #man #money

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#fashion #i #i can #kinds #moral

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#arts #craftsmen #developing #equivalent #farmers

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

— Victor Hugo

#enforcing #god #indigestion #morality #stomach

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#attracted #been #conclusions #dazzling #draw