I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where if you didn't at least attempt to play basketball, you were considered of dubious moral character.
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the result of a combination of will and force; of will, united with a physical power sufficient to compel obedience to it, but not necessarily having any moral character whatever.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.