Zitat des Tages über Zivilcourage / Moral Courage:
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, his swordsmanship, his bravery, and his knack for pulling victory out of the toughest situations. But he was known, too, for his profane back talk and his problems with authority.