Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The topdog may win the game of force. But not the moral issue - and when that dawns upon him and his… — Johan Galtung Copy Share Image
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces,… — Virgilia Peterson 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
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
“Hermes smiled. "I knew a boy once ... oh, younger than you by far. A mere baby, really." Here we go again… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
That is the gay agenda...it is the recreation of society on a different moral foundation and the problem with that is that… — Scott Lively Copy Share Image
If physical power be the fountain of law, then law and force are synonymous terms. Or, perhaps, rather, law would be the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
No genuine equality, no real freedom, no true manhood or womanhood can exist on any foundation save that of pecuniary independence. As… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs -… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs,… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
On the threshold of the moral world we meet the idea of Freedom, 'one of the weightiest concepts man has ever formed,'… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among… — John Denham Copy Share Image
What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures… — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
