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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity.… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral,… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
Some jobs require a more consistent challenge to moral courage than others. Politics is one. In such a setting terrifically good men… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
The bad things the U.S. health care system are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass in the… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
I worry about younger generations who were born to view their country trampling on humanity of everyone that comes in its way,… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
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
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
“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
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
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it… — Flora Lewis Copy Share Image
The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is impossible to look into the Bible with the most ordinary attention without feeling that we have got into a moral… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
Well, the moral of the story, The moral of this song, Is simply that one should never be Where one does not… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
