We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“The moral of "The Three Bears," for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house." The moral of "Snow White" is "Never… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society… It became part… — Max Meyer Copy Share Image
The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn,… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
It may be that there is so much ambiguity and ideology attached to the term 'terrorism' that it is best to avoid… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour;… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I believe that we carry within us a divinely inspired moral imperative to love ... We have within us the ability to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Government by the people for the people becomes meaningless unless it includes major economic decision-making by the people for the people. This… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
Anytime you're dealing with moral issues, in a government position, you're dealing with some sticky stuff because everybody's morality is different. So… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
Every man owes a part of his time and money to the business or industry in which he is engaged. No man… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think you should live your moral values, but the last thing, the very last thing, the government should do is have… — Tim Kaine 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
We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Diseases don't respect borders. You know, just at the edge of the American border, that isn't the edge of diseases. We need… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior… — William Damon Copy Share Image
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see… — Jill Tweedie Copy Share Image
“We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world…but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image