An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.
The population of the world is a conditional population; these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live; there shall be a better, please God.
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.
Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his girlfriend. You should come with me. " "I can't go with you. " "Is it because of my questionable morals?" "No, it's because it's three o'clock in the afternoon and I have to pick up Amber from school. " "Oh, right. So the morals thing doesn't bother you?
Eats first, morals after.
Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.
[priests are] the pretenders to power and dominion, and to a superior sanctity of character, distinct from virtue and good morals.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.
I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.