Moral Character Quotes - Page 3

• Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

  Susan Sontag

  Character, Tests, Moral

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I have a lot to say about Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton that has not been said by others recently and that I think needs to be said. I mean I've known her for 40 years. I worked with her, I know her well professionally. I know her well personally. I know her to be a person of high moral character. A reliable person and an honest person, however Mr. [Donald] Trump may rant and rave to the contrary. So I'm happy to say that. People can make their own choices.

  William Weld

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.

  Bill Ayers

  Growing Up, School, Character

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [Peter Norman] was a man of principle and pride, had a strong moral character.

  John Carlos

  Strong, Character, Pride

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Character, Helping, Moral

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.164, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Personality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

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• He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Character, Done, Facts

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Character, People, Literature

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• It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Daughter, Mother, Character

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• Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.

  Pope John Paul II

  Character, Technology, Agriculture

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• I want our children's children to be free to walk safely down the street, girls to attend school, and women to work. I hope we continue to have freedom to wear what we want, worship how we want, study what we want, publish what we want while assuming personal responsibility for one's moral character.

  Julie Carmen

  Girl, Children, School

  "The Right to Follow Your Bliss" by Julie Carmen, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character; and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.

  Robert Southey

  Christian, Character, Men

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• The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Military, Character, Israel

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• A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our illusions, the light diminishing like our intelligence, the sun growing colder like our affections, the rivers becoming frozen like our lives--all bear secret relations to our destinies.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Flower, Fall, Character

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• Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in us. What would we think of a man or woman who does not experience jealous feelings when another person approaches his or her spouse and threatens to win his or her affection? We would regard such a person as deficient in moral character and lacking in true love.

  Sam Storms

  Husband, Jealous, Character

  Sam Storms (2014). “Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God”, p.144, Tyndale House

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• Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Running, Lying, Philosophy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses, the side that is being attacked and accused will use all their resources and associations to try to discredit and discount the professional and moral character of the person revealing the threatening information. They will do everything to make that person look smaller than they really are.

  Suzy Kassem

  Character, Trying, Looks

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• Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

  Timothy Keller

  Strong, Character, Perfect

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• Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Hypocrisy, Politics, Moral

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

  Mortimer Adler

  Moving, Character, Ethos

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• The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.

  Edward Anthony Spitzka

  Science, Men, Light

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• It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, Liberty

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1375, e-artnow

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• Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Character, Men, Vision

  William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3

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• For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

  Aristotle

  Character, May, Sovereign

  Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes (1833). “Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric”, p.12

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• You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

  Joseph Heller

  Taken, Character, Intelligent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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