To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you… — Valerie June Copy Share Image
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
They are our brothers, these freedom fighters… They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines.… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting… — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th… — Sheryl WuDunn Copy Share Image
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately,… — African Spir Copy Share Image
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