“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America
Quoted in the New York Times (9 August 1964)
“Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
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Mohammad Khatami (1943) Iranian prominent reformist politician, scholar and shiite faqih.
During a speech at Council on American-Islamic Relations http://www.ghazali.net/archives2006/html/khatmi_blasts.html (dead link). (8 September 2006) <br class="br">Attributed
“Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
Natan Sharansky book The Case for Democracy
Preface, page xix.
The Case for Democracy (2004, with Ron Dermer)
“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
TIME interview (1977)
Context: Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust — the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it. … I tell young people to go to the oldest members of their family and get as much oral history as possible. Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored. And when the young person starts doing this, the old are warmed to the cockles of their souls and will tell a grandchild everything they can muster.
Vine Deloria Jr. (1933–2005) American writer
Foreword to Words of Power: Voices from Indian America (1994), also quoted in "Vine Deloria, Jr." at Indigenous Peoples Literature (2015) by Glen Welker http://www.indigenouspeople.net/vine.htm