#morals

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#man #menace #mind #morals #society

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#guides #manners #morals #others #our

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea. ↗

— James Agee

#morality #morals #right #social-justice #society

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born. ↗

— - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

#amazing #arabs #atomic #atomic-bomb #beautiful

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#forgiveness #morals #readers #repentance #revenge

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind. ↗

— Mahatma Ghandi

#humankind #inspiration #morals #protection #inspirational

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#self-control #men

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really ↗

— Manu Joseph

#morals #men

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#morals #spiders #nature