Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Have the moral courage to stand firm in obeying God’s will, even if you have to stand alone. — Ulisses Soares Copy Share Image
One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate… — Richard Livingstone Copy Share Image
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell 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
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes that he or she has compromised his or her… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral… — Ashton Carter Copy Share Image
If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten,… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental'… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle… — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy Copy Share Image
You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“We have a moral consciousness meaning we can discern right from wrong, which makes us accountable; like Christ.” — Moroaswi Tumiso Victor Copy Share Image
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code. — Jack Higgins Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us. — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation,… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
-The highest stage in moral ure at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I grew up, which was really in the 30s and the 40s, the movies were a moral guideline for me. — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
