A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power. — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I was raised with moral principles that would not be shaken in hard times. And mentorship is huge - it's really important… — Ser'Darius Blain Copy Share Image
It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle… — Elmer Davis Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Pro-life advocates don't oppose abortion because they find it distasteful; they oppose it because it violates rational moral principles. The negative emotional… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“Morality is like defecation. When you have the urge to defecate, do you ask an intellectual, what it is like to feel… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I write nothing for publication, and last of all things should it be on the subject of religion. On the dogmas of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Jesus' 'lack of moral principles.' He sat at meat with publicans and sinners, he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to… — Dag Hammarskjöld Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“The great presidents never forget the principles of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them--in the long run--without undermining the… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“As we are in the Church age, which is an age of grace rather than the theocracy of Mosaic times, we are… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Everything is going to be alright" we often say to ourselves or to others - when we are faced with problems, before… — Helmut F. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“The attempt made in recent decades by secularist thinkers to disengage the moral principles of western civilization from their scripturally based religious… — Will Herberg Copy Share Image
“Different people define "the good life" in different ways. To me, the good life includes active participation in family, church and community.… — Kenneth Ross French Copy Share Image
“The Reformation is one root of the idea of human freedom and autonomy as it is represented in modern democracy. However, while… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“taught them that whether a piece of writing is a novel or a law, each person is the sole arbiter of what… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
