A Quote by Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Joseph Heller

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Joseph Heller
American - Writer
May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Timothy Keller

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Jasper Fforde

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

S.E. Cupp

I think we may very well, in many areas, get likelihood, but not certitude. We don't want certitude anyway, do we?

Frank Moore Cross

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Ronald Reagan

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Ronald Reagan

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Glenn Beck

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Peter Ustinov

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?