Morality Scale Quotes & Sayings

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology for care, of technology for morality. — Wendell Berry

Conquer or be conquered. — David Farragut

She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace ... When you see the necklace in the painting, it all makes sense. He loved her. Even if she lived to one hundred and five without ever getting an answer. — Sophie Kinsella

A clue to the building's original identity was painted on the eastern side of the building: MONMOUTH MANUFACTURING. But for all their research, neither Gansey nor Adam had been able to figure out precisely what Monmouth had manufactured. Something that had required twenty-five-foot ceilings and wide open spaces; something that had left moisture stains on the floor and gouges in the brick walls. Something that the world no longer needed. — Maggie Stiefvater

Because that's life, you know? Good and bad. You can't have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in us, and the good can be corrupted by the bad. It's always a struggle - to fight for the good, so it tips the scale. - Jet Phoenix — Rachael Wade

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters. — Gregory Kane

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know. — Edwin Muir

Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft. — Anthony Of Padua

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.' — Theodor Herzl

When one follows the path with heart, one often bleeds. (But what is the alternative - a cauterized core?) — Erica Jong

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. — John Steinbeck

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality. — D.H. Lawrence

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others." — Menander

I love movies. And I dig a great love story: the kind that wrecks me, then builds me back up and leaves me inspired. I write what I want to see. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

My happiness today is simply the result of my own thinking. Happiness starts with me not with my relationships, not with my job, not with my money, but with me. — Latorria Freeman

A lover of money is seldom a lover of people. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I didn't buy Bentleys. I didn't live large. I invested in me. I invested in a lot of other people. — Sinbad