#oral

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

#dead #exclusively #facts #full #hand

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#ages #any #artist #fail #history

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#action movies #evil #exuberant #good #i

We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#degradation #found #fully #grand #history

This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character. ↗

— James Stockdale

#being #big #big deal #character #convictions

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#authority #been #between #changing #channels

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#appreciate #atheist #commandments #contains #document

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary. ↗

— Lincoln Steffens

#morality #only #voluntary

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#highest #ideas #moral #music #namely

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#best #care #children #disease #disproportionately