#oral

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. ↗

— John Ruskin

#like #me #morality #only #taste

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#morality #psychology #reason #intelligence

Healing is a moral thing to do. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#moral #thing

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. ↗

— William Weld

#catalyst #government #healthy #high #high office

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ↗

— Jane Addams

#exception #immorality #make #myself #tendency

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#fear #in my opinion #master #morally #obliged

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls. ↗

— Roland Allen

#allow #christ #consideration #duty #gospel

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#avenue #collect #collected #effort #fifth

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark