Moral Fiber

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or fiber:

    “Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before new flashes of moral worth.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
    —Ralph Ellison (b. 1914)