And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead… — Joe Cornish Copy Share Image
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
When you do something moral and upright and wander off by yourself, well, everyone doesn't always follow you, do they, right? You… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social… — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This… — Theodore Beale Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If my work is pornography, so what? I don't have any moral compunction about pornography. Any feelings I have about it are… — David Salle Copy Share Image
People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as… — Norman McLaren Copy Share Image
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I'm not physically harming any of these people by being high, and it's just interesting to see that I feel like my… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
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When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be bribed with meat, Oberon." "They Can't? Oh! you mean they're vegetarian." "No, they eat meat. It just doesn't… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
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![“It seems to me that your doctor [Tronchin] is more of a philosopher than a physician. As for me, I much prefer a doctor who is anoptimist and who gives me remedies that will improve my health. Philosophical consolations are, after all, useless against real ailments. I know only two kinds of…” quote by Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b6e/lord-chesterfield-757_ailments_it-seems-to-me-that-your-doctor-tronchin_2516424.jpg)
![“When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid no longer exists, at least to all appearances, but no one understands what the new government in South Africa is doing.” quote by Mengistu Haile Mariam](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/26c/mengistu-haile-mariam-31262_apartheid_when-nelson-mandela-was-in-prison-i-admi_2790318.jpg)
![“We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil.” quote by Benjamin Netanyahu](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/99f/benjamin-netanyahu-2269_belief_we-israel-people-always-blame-moses-that_592836.jpg)
