#oral

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#philosophy #politics #life

Distraction leads to Destruction! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#lesson-for-life #life-lessons #moral #philosophy #wisdom

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#field #gospel #illusion #interest #leaders

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#boost #civilians #fact #i #i think

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. ↗

— George Plimpton

#biography #editor #jury #oral #pleasures

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#morality #art

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#called #death #even #into #moral

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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