Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think — Dorothy Kilgallen Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral… — Samuel Pisar Copy Share Image
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind. In this respect, it differs from faithfulness by being more practical and… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
It is important for America that the moral truths which make freedom possible should be passed on to each new generation. Every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Nor does the idea of a moral order asserting itself against attack or want of conformity answer in full to our feelings… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What's the moral of the story? People Above will hurt you. People Above will break you, and devour your heart raw.” — Leah Bobet Copy Share Image
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core. — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
