Character Quote by Moses Finley Download Open image “Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.” — Moses Finley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Explanation Historical History Identical Judgment Moral Moral judgment
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. — James Rachels Copy Share Image
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people — Don Herold Copy Share Image
There are few instances when American history offers us two clear sides of a moral line. — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole. — Moses Finley 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
