There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
quote by Denis Diderot
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The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient he finds his wheelchair from time to time.
quote by Sarah Brady
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An Inconvenient Truth
truths somehow are inconvenient
like living on walls so tight that we cannot breathe
because air is so thin,
like living high up on the topmost hill,
truths make us uneasy
like we fear that somehow these truths are uncovered
and the corresponding penalties
are hard to accept and endure
just like this inconvenient truth that soon we shall have
ice melting, waters rising, lands diminishing
populations exploding, massive floods
people drowning, global warming,
i remember Noah, just like you remember how he
constructed his ark
on those clearer summer days,
he did not build his ark when the flood came
put yourself in his shoes
or in the shoes of the ordinary onlooker
was he not crazy? was it not really inconvenient for him?
or was it not worst with you
because you have no capacity for truth
or believing it
you have no talent to live in its shadows
you have always been repealed
by its warm embracing arms
you will wait when you will be slapped by its very hands
by then it will be too late
you are drowning, and the ark has sailed farther to that island
of truth where you will no longer be its inhabitant
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is
unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
quote by Hans Morgenthau
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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
quote by William Blake
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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
quote by Josh Billings
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Poverty is no sin, but terribly inconvenient.
It's no disgrace to be poor, but it can be inconvenient.
Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
quote by Sydney Smith
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Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
quote by Milton Berle
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Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
quote by Larry Summers
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I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
quote by Bert Williams
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How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?
quote by Auberon Herbert
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
quote by Noam Chomsky
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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