Moral Quote by Tim O'Brien

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

— Tim O'Brien

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

— Tim O'Brien

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel…

— Tim O'Brien

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

— Tim O'Brien

“I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows... Or it would…

— Tim O'Brien

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and…

— Tim O'Brien

I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils…

— John Quincy Adams

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in…

— Samuel Richardson

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel

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

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

— Frederick Douglass