Character Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

— Samuel Johnson

You cannot attain and maintain physical condition unless you are morally and mentally conditioned. And it is impossible to be in moral condition unless…

— John Wooden

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

— Aime Martin

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

— George Santayana

“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result,…

— Dalai Lama

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can…

— Henry David Thoreau

Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make…

— Allen W. Wood

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.…

— Walter Lippmann

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo