Top 25 Moral Complexity Quotes
#1. Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity ... Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.
Ron Rash
#2. For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!
Joyce Carol Oates
#3. The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.
James S.A. Corey
#4. I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.
Ken MacLeod
#5. The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
Neil Cross
#8. Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life ...
Hillary Clinton
#9. Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.
Ray Bradbury
#10. I never set out to bash men, it is not about revenge, I always say at the end of a relationship that i hope that i have created a better man for the next woman by what i allowed and reinforced
Crystal Evans
The Bunna Man
Crystal Evans
#11. Hip hop in its purest form has evolved, inspired, educated and created a lucrative independent revenue stream for what was once a poverty-stricken, hopeless class of artists.
Carlos Wallace
#12. Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?
Ravi Zacharias
#13. We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning.
(from the foreword in The War I survived Was Vietnam by Michael Uhl)
Steve Rees
#14. At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.
Azar Nafisi
#15. And I've just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don't, if I keep numbing it, it'll never really go away.
Paula Hawkins
#17. The Lady ...
The lady is a humble thing
Made of death and water
The fashion is to dress it plain
And use the mind for border
Elise Cowen
#19. The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula
Rick Joyner
#20. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
Edgar Allan Poe
#21. [Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it.
Bill Moyers
#22. In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
John Tukey
#23. Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
#24. So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God's divine Providence
Sunday Adelaja
#25. It's enough of a strain killing people. I've no time for deer.
Mick Ballou
Lawrence Block