Moralizing Literature Quotes

#1. For politicians to be honest, the public needs to allow them to be honest, and the media, which mediates between the politicians and the public, needs to allow those politicians to be honest. If local democracy is to flourish, it is about the active and informed engagement of every citizen.

Rory Stewart

#2. Now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.

Lois Lowry

#3. Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.

Anthony Doerr

#4. I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue.

Sean Connery

#5. God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.

Billy Graham

#6. Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

Jim George

#7. Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.

Antoine Rivarol

#8. When not prompted by vanity, we say little.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#9. I've lived this long because I didn't die.

Dirk Jan Struik