#morals

Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head. ↗

— Pavan Choudary

#morals #success-self-improvement #inspirational

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. (from "Rediscovering Lost Values") ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#morals #physics #universe #values #inspirational

Montaigne said long ago: "Were I not to follow the straight road for its straightness, I should follow it for having found by experience that in the end it is commonly the happiest and most useful track." The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not then new, but among the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance; it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#experience

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#hear #i #i think #kids #morals

Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view Nero's entertainments or Mengele's experiments? My own initial reaction is that such a comparison is hysterical, extreme - and yet the reason it seems extreme to me appears to be that I believe animals are less morally important than human behings; and when it comes to defending such a belief, even to myself, I have to acknowledge that (a) I have an obvious selfish interest in this belief, since I like to eat certain kinds of animals and want to be able to keep doing it, and (b) I haven't succeeded in working out any sort of personal ethical system in which the belief is truly defensible instead of just selfishly convenient. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#animal-rights #ethics #morals #experience

It is forbidden for a Muslim to curse anything, be it an animal, person, or lifeless thing. ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful #culture #curse #forbidden #hadees

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important. ↗

— Honor Raconteur

#faith #freedom #gods-will #honor #man

First people lose their hair, then their vices, then their motivation. Then a toupee brings it all flowing back. ↗

— Bauvard

#hair #humor #morale #morals #funny

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#life #morals #reagan #religion #ronald