Quotes About Moral Paralysis

#1. In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.

Vagit Alekperov

#2. I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

John Piper

#3. He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

Carolyn Mackler

#4. Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan ... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

Jonathan Lethem

#5. It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

Tim O'Brien

#6. When I was in Holland, the idea was, all cultures are equal and all are to be preserved. My idea was, no, all humans are equal, but not all cultures are equal.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#7. I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

Stephen King

#8. His true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science.

{Gibbs's obituary for scientist Rudolf Clausius}

Josiah Willard Gibbs

#9. What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Voltaire

#10. If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. I wrote 'The Blue Sweater' to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#12. admit it, man. He watched the shadows dance to the flicker of his candle, giving himself just a little more time before committing himself to what would change his life forever." You love her." He whispered the words quietly to himself so that he could hear them from his own lips." You love her.

Pamela Aidan

#13. There is nothing."
Philosophy

That can't be done."
Religion

Two negatives equals a positive."
Math

Dustin Sweet

#14. I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.

Nicholas Young

#15. All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief.

James S.A. Corey

#16. Ms. Baird," he said, using her formal title because it made her pay attention, "have I or have I not made it clear that I would like you in my bed?

Nalini Singh

#17. That grin of his was torture on the balls.

Jack L. Pyke