Morality Play Quotes

#1. A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.

Pauline Kael

#2. Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.

Lionel Shriver

#4. Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. The Place would already have started the leisurely, enjoyable process of digesting her into just one more piece of local gore-lore, half ghost story and half morality play, half urban myth and half just the way life goes. It would eat her memory whole, the same way its ground had eaten her body.

Tana French

#6. There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays the part of Napoleon to be Napoleon, or for an actor who plays Death in the old morality play to be dead.

Robert Edmond Jones

#7. Economics is not a morality play.

Paul Krugman

#8. Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Bob Woodward

#9. Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.

T. B. Joshua

#10. The Buke of Ye Chess used the game as the basis for a series of sermons on morality. Neither book illustrates play or player improvement, but uses the chessboard and pieces to 'allegorize a political community whose citizens contribute to the common good'2.

Laura Caine Ramsey

#11. For he that will say and nothing do
Is not worthy with good company to go.

Anonymous

#12. Sociopathy. Defined: Psychopathic. Antisocial. Criminal. Lacking morality and responsibility. I don't try to play psychiatrist to myself... I just want to know.

Nathan Edmondson

#13. We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

Paul Gillmor

#14. Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

Jay Cutler

#15. Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.

Ina May Gaskin

#16. DESIGN NOW, NOW IS THE FUTURE

Hyewon Wang

#17. Idea at play here is that of "morality." When young women are taught about morality, there's not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens

Jessica Valenti

#18. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil. The greatest way to do that is through love. I believe firmly that love is a transforming power than can lift a whole community to new horizons of fair play, goodwill, and justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#19. So you stay, you don't tell anyone, is that it?"
"Sure," Della Lee said easily.
"That's blackmail."
"Add it to my list of sins."
"I don't think there's room left on that list," Josey said as she took a dress from its hanger. Then she closed the closet door on Della Lee.

Sarah Addison Allen

#20. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

S.A. Tawks

#21. I didn't know I came off as a judgmental asshole," he mused. "You don't. But you are a total alpha male and you know it." "All the men in this house are," he retorted. "Maybe, but I think we both know you're number one." "Have you met my wife? She totally runs me.

Cambria Hebert

#22. I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Arundhati Roy

#23. By confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past

William Hardy McNeill

#24. If you make the customer a promise ... make sure you deliver it.

Merv Griffin

#25. Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Theodore Dreiser

#26. Impossible is relative.

Michio Kaku

#27. If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

Daniel Smith

#28. Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

Robert W. Cox

#29. Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

Keri Russell

#30. Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.

Patti Smith

#31. 'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

M.J. Rose

#32. When you are interviewing refugees, each person you talk to has a different story that could come from a horror movie. So many people talk about seeing their families get murdered before their eyes. Then I go to Central Park, and people are talking about their third divorce and paying tuition.

Brandon Stanton

#33. I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Kevin Bacon