The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it… — Allen West Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
It would seem to me that If this physical life, of which we are now aware, does indeed comprise the entirety of… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works… — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image