Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
I do not believe that hating any man solves the problem of race or any other problem. ... I firmly believe that… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Moral theory develops from the divine command theory of medieval Christian philosophy, mixed up with a bit of ancient pagan virtue theory,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular… — William James Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
I recognize that Republicans see a moral difference between a dollar taken away from a millionaire in government benefits and a dollar… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Atheists would teach men to be moral now, not because God offers as an inducement reward by and by, but because in… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
If all you think we need to do to get this economy going and get this country on the right track is… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book… — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible… — Sid Vicious Copy Share Image
It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as… — Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder Copy Share Image
Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image