Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “The great call for the Church is to not just be concerned about right or wrong behavior, which is moral life, but about communion with God, which is mystical life.” Church Moral Behavior ♥ 3
George Santayana Philosopher, Poet “The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.” Feelings Moral Strongest ♥ 3
Gustave Flaubert Novelist “What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.” Beautiful Moral ♥ 3
George Washington Military Leader, Politician “The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.” Practice Happiness Moral ♥ 3
Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist “As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.” School Support Moral ♥ 3
Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist “[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.” Responsibility Moral Academia ♥ 3
HA Henry Adams Historian “Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.” Women Moral Settling ♥ 3
Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher “But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.” Hands Moral Yield ♥ 3
HF Henry Ford Industrialist “We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.” Moral Conflict Economics ♥ 3
James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist “Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.” Criticism Moral Teach ♥ 3
James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist “We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.” Thinking Science Moral ♥ 3
