Moral Interest

Famous quotes containing the words moral and/or interest:

    “... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.”
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    “The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it—can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.”
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)