#oral

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#dead #economic #economic independence #exactly #footing

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#great #imagination #instrument #moral

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ↗

— Vittorio De Sica

#envy #indignation #moral #most

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#budget #campaign #clash #combat #consequence

That we have children coming into this world already polluted, at the same time we don't know what the effects of that pollution will be on their mental and physical development, is both bad policy and immorally wrong. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#bad #both #children #coming #development

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#analysis #attempt #century #implicit #interest

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail. ↗

— Charles Ferguson Smith

#force #head #neither #nor #seems

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#bad #body #chill #conscience #fragile

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#cowardice #dangerous #irresponsible #keeps #minds

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. ↗

— Thorne Smith

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