Character Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image ““The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Religion Virtue
“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Unchecked power, driven by self-interest, scarcity, grandiosity and aggression, is deadly to God’s original fruitful purposes.” — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“Virtue becomes unhealthy if it is not softened by some misdemeanours, and faith quickly becomes cruel if it is not subdued by certain doubts.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“You are going to perform a virtuous deed, but you don't even believe in virtue--that's what makes you angry and torments you, that's why… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oh for shame, how the mortals put the blame on us gods, for they say evils come from us, but it is they, rather,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman 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
