In these xenophobic times, when politicians are stoking everyone's anxiety about threats from abroad, I would argue that engaging with the rest… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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Today, the UK must be the pioneer of a new model of economic change, that integrates social and environmental consideration. This is… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
We're looking at a quandary here where Bernie's [Sanders] the winner on a moral and even a political basis. He's made history,… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
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Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Her (Jane Austen) moral message is infused with ideological insistence on the merits of good conduct, good manners, sound reason, and marriage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman.… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding true to the Hippocratic oath and… — Raul Ruiz Copy Share Image
I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
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Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“They make you settle for second best." That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways,… — Zoltan Istvan Copy Share Image
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