Character Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

— Mary Oliver

“Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman: it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the Human. To a man, horses and dogs and cats…

— Oliver Benjamin

“We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world…but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There…

— William Dean Howells

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the…

— Madame de Stael

I am a high moraled person in a low moral world. Sometimes that makes all the difference.

— Kaylee Mondrella

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural…

— Edmund Burke

“If there is any political moral to be found in this world,” Stencil once wrote in his journal, “it is that we carry on…

— Thomas Pynchon

“There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural…

— Edmund Burke

On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,' once a…

— Havelock Ellis