The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The uncertain and imprecise way of constructing a drawing is sometimes a model of how to construct meaning... The ethical and moral… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal… Every soldier thinks something of… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
“The line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern. The man who stands before a crowd and… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals… — Mr. Lif Copy Share Image
If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
One is never just a teacher: One is always - even if not consciously - an advocate of a point of view,… — Robert Audi Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible… — John Burns Copy Share Image
My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel.… — P.J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
