#morally

Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#atomic #better #both #centuries #menace

Will suspected Jem was in fact cleverer than he was himself - but he lacked Will's tendency to assume the absolute worst about people and proceed from there. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#morally-deficant #sarcasm #funny

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#get #i #kill #lives #morally

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#educated #functioning #grounded #healthy #leadership

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#acts #against #always #conscience #every

We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. ↗

— Julian Assange

#come #compelled #continue #dissidents #feel

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#bearing #benefit #cost #decent #few

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#bible #dedicated #exhort #i #life

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#between #cannot #forward #gap #go

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape. ↗

— William Blum

#citizenry #convinced #many #morally #murder