Moliere Quotes

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Moral
  • Jealousy
  • Halo

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• 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
  • People
  • Hope
  • Moral

• Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Democracy
  • Serious
  • Moral

• Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Law
  • Moral
  • Ethics

• When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Consequences

• When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • American
  • Political

• The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Long
  • Today
  • Moral

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Religious
  • Sometimes

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Me
  • Suffering

• Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Important
  • Moral
  • Choice

• Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Moral

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Wonder

• I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against such social evils.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Up
  • Moral

• Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Control
  • Moral

• Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical 'patriarchy' their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Universe

• We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

  

  William Cooke Taylor
  • Moral
  • Journey
  • Wine

• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Moral
  • Choices
  • Authority

• I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Understanding

• There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • Mind
  • Hand

• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Body

• One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

  

  Moliere
  • Moral
  • Mockery
  • Reproof