If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety. — Stephen Young Copy Share Image
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. — Raymond Smullyan Copy Share Image
The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on… — George Combe Copy Share Image
With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural… — Jeff Guinn Copy Share Image
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
Someone cold, politically calculating with no moral compass who can't be trusted. That's what polling and discussions with voters indicate [about Hillary… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as… — Emmeline B. Wells Copy Share Image
We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances. — Confucius Copy Share Image
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls. — Glenn Frey Copy Share Image
Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image