Character Quote by H. L. Mencken

Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

— Ayn Rand

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as…

— David Plotz

“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but were discreetly…

— Saul D. Alinsky

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its…

— H. L. Mencken

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men…

— H. L. Mencken

So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral victory that…

— Adam Schiff

The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors.…

— Ken Saro-Wiwa

To win a moral victory at the expense of your sanity is dumb.

— Stuart Wilde

“was a moral victory simply to question the official presentation of truth and posit an alternative by documenting observable reality.”

— Thomas E Ricks