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Moralizing Quotes (page 26)

John Irving quote: "If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin."
If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin. John Irving
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived of knowledge and wisdom, pines away. We should feel the same pity for minds that do not eat as for stomachs. If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light. All progress tends toward the solution. Some day, people will be... Victor Hugo
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. Allan Bloom
When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, "Who is destroying the world?" You are. Ayn Rand
Serenity. Now you could wish for that, naming no conditions: a permanent inner vacation, escape made good. To somehow have this motionlessness that he drew in with the sweet air he inhaled for his inward weather always. But there were problems too with wishing for moral qualities, serenity, large-mindedness. The interdiction (which Pierce thought obvious) against wishing for such things as artistic abilities -- sit down at the piano, the Appassionata flows suddenly from your fingertips --... John Crowley
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. Emily Bronte
Neal Stephenson quote: "That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does..."
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. Neal Stephenson
There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction regardless of fashion or trend. Ted Koppel
Bono quote: "Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see..."
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will. Bono
Katherine Anne Porter quote: "I get so tired of moral bookkeeping."
I get so tired of moral bookkeeping. Katherine Anne Porter
Louisa May Alcott quote: "Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing."
Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing. Louisa May Alcott
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure. C. S. Lewis
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. Christopher Hitchens
Dante Alighieri quote: "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in..."
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. Dante Alighieri
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. Anne Lamott

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