That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The moral is that in trading it's important to examine the situation from as many angles as possible, because your initial impulses… — Jeff Yass Copy Share Image
I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals. [Lat., Aut… — Ovid Copy Share Image
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Two years ago I was on the train from Berlin to Frankfurt when I heard that the Nobel Peace Prize had been… — Liao Yiwu Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of… — Wolfgang Koeppen Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life,… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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