#oral

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#morality #religion #religious-extremism #religion

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#character #great #high #moral #moral character

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good

Is advertising moral? It is part and parcel of the American free enterprise system... I challenge anybody to show any economic system that has done as much for so many in so short a time. ↗

— Morris Hite

#american #any #anybody #challenge #done

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#demoralize #enemy #future #sabotage #surprise

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality. ↗

— Dee Hock

#best #body #cannot #heart #influence

In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#england #like #look #morally #surroundings

Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future. ↗

— T.M. Williams

#desperation #ethics #luxury #morality #tm-williams

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#although #being #beyond #civilized #got

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#honor #lack #morals #people #poisoned