Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps,… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
A new educational system in which all children born shall have the same advantage of physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
One reason why it has become harder to promote the beneficial side of emotions such as anger is that the moral vocabulary… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become… — Elisabeth Murdoch Copy Share Image
In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had… — Thurston Clarke Copy Share Image
Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes that he or she has compromised his or her… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it… — Allen West Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I think that - apart from the fields of science and medicine - we live in an age of decline. Look at… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement… — James Madison Copy Share Image
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men.… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have… — Floyd Patterson Copy Share Image
Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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