It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
A responsibility to be a role model as a father yes, as a man, as a public figure, yes. That responsibility just… — T.I Copy Share Image
The first ten, twelve or fifteen years of life are excavated of inherent moral worth in order to accommodate a regimen of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do think trying to live each day as a bunch of moral occasions, did I live up to what I would… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general.… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“We are what we are because we have been what we have been, and what is needed for solving the problems of… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Who has ever attempted to draw a line of separation between the duties of men and women, as moral beings, without committing… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain… — Carlo Levi Copy Share Image
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world;… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
