Character Quote by Adam Phillips Download Open image ““Morality born of intimidation is immoral.”” — Adam Phillips ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
“They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Is it objectively wrong to torture innocent babies, just for fun? Is morality relative?” — Vincent Bozzino Copy Share Image
“Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“A society whose moral ideas inhibit their own defense will always suffer defeat by the very predators they deem immoral.” — Randy Wayne White Copy Share Image
“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“I cannot subscribe to the perverted reasoning that society may advance and strengthen the rule of law by the expenditure of morally innocent lives… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers as diverse as Wordsworth and Freud, as Blake and Dickens have all hypothesized that the turbulence and intensity we feel as young children… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.” — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“Finding hate-objects may be every bit as essential as finding love-objects, but if one can tolerate some of one's badness -- meaning recognize it… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
“So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The child..will try to make himself..independent of other people. .. Excesses of appetite are self-cures for feelings of hopelessness. ..The child [uses] ‘doubt about… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
