Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Other 'Christian' girls may watch the same movies, listen to the same music, wear the same clothes, and have all the same… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
I should be able to express moral views on social issues - especially those that have been the underpinning of Western civilization… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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