Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
It always sounds kind of trivial, but when I was a kid I was always so impressed by how serious the comic… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science:… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral… — Henry Wade Copy Share Image
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general… — George Boole Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Socrates repeatedly emphasized the point that moral knowledge is not mere acquisition of information but personal change. To know the good is… — Steven B. Cowan Copy Share Image
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I've had the philosophy that John Adams expressed, in the kind of system that we're trying to create in this country: that… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image