Moral Uplift Quotes

#1. Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Christina Stead

#2. I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress ...

William Howard Taft

#3. Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

Anthony Burgess

#4. The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write.

Jodi Picoult

#5. I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

David Bowie

#6. People in this day and age are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be being controlled by a man ... I'm the boss.

Lily Allen

#7. Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house.

Margaret Atwood

#8. We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it ... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Alice Lowe

#9. The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

Jim Wallis

#10. Moi?" He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. "You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.

Rachel Caine

#11. A true writer has a moral duty to uplift humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Douglas MacArthur

#13. Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Hugh Hefner