Quotes About Moral Realism

#1. If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. Good night, and good luck.

Edward R. Murrow

#3. We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

Jo Nesbo

#4. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Jim Butcher

#5. Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying injury with kindness, effecting difficult things while they are easy, and managing great things in their beginnings; this is the method of Tao.

Laozi

#6. To abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#7. Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

Gatewood Galbraith

#8. Some of us don't want to be a housewife. When you live alone, you can do anything you want to do anytime you want. I really like it.

Grace Slick

#9. I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Jared Kushner

#10. For every person who rides with a moral high-horse, they also have a dead horse that they haven't fed lying somewhere out of sight.

Zack W. Van

#11. I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

A.R. Rahman

#12. Moral writing is boring.

Johan Van Wyk

#13. What a pity it is that by such superfluous unrealities he should furnish the public with excuses to evade the overwhelming realism of his moral theology!

Jocelyn Gibb

#14. When you're down on yourself, and when you are hunkering down and pulling back, you're not going to make any better decisions than when you were aggressively, belligerently putting yourself forward.

Hillary Clinton

#15. A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

George Eliot

#16. No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

Li Keqiang

#17. They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels, so that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.

William Bratton

#18. I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.

Tom Rachman