War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba
Khaled Hosseini...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
John GardnerTags: morality paris-review-interview
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma GoldmanTags: morality prostitution marriage feminism
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
Noël CowardTags: morality architecture cities london buildings skyscrapers
What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.
Tags: honesty morality belief religion decency
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama XIVTags: life inspirational kindness morality simple ethics philosophy brain temple
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment gender women morality feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality stereotypes double-standards clichés womanhood dignity protectiveness social-norms
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireTags: humor morality ethics murder nationalism war mankind law killing irony double-standards nations governments
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus AureliusOne must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
Robert MusilTags: morality fitting-in conformity neurosis conforming conforming-and-attitude immorality individual-vs-society neuroticism societal-expectations societal-norms
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