#oral

The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#bad #base #creatures #drawn #fascinating

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#bearing #both #deny #international #men

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#faith #gay #gay marriage #issue #issues

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus. ↗

— Rick Warren

#conscience #dogs #jesus #moral #nor

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dislike #given #happen #immorality #like

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#adopt #dislike #morality #people #personally

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#argument #common #common good #component #credible

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

#does #fool #great #great deal #history

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

#choice #daily #developed #grows #habit

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#literature #moral #politics #serve