#oral

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate. ↗

#between #distinctions #i #i am #literate

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. ↗

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#actually #any #each #easy #ever

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. ↗

— Lord Acton

#consequences #destitute #evil #injurious #man

In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#believe #believed #did #economic #encouragement

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ↗

— Russell Baker

#because #bump #church #deciding #dump

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#i #mean #morality #technology

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#every #foundation #man #morality #remember

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

#fails #left #mark #may #oral

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. ↗