#oral

You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High. But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#moral-superiority #morality #totalitarianism

True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#morality #path #true #fearless

Anything artistic should have some ambiguity to it. And, uh, you know, if there's only one way of interpreting it, it's probably closing in on propaganda. So, you know, it was just examining a world in which things are very desensitized, and it was sort of even asking the question of "what is peace?" really, because, you know, there is no static condition at any given time, that's just an illusion, and so peace must be more about the ideal of peace, and working towards it on a continual basis, and valuing the idea of peace. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#morals #peace #peacekeeper #propaganda

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?" "What's the point of having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgements of your mind? ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#judgement

The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#admirer #beautiful #beauty #big #grow

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ↗

— John Adams

#constitution #government #inadequate #made #moral

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗

— John Adams

#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#get #i #kill #lives #morally