This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of… — Paul Levine Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your… — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Action isn't a burden to be hoisted up and lugged around on our shoulders. It is something we are. The work we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
...I'm saying that we (Americans) have sunk pretty low and I'm saying that you can look at the moral climate in Germany… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's odd how a person always arouses admiration for his moral qualities among the relatives of another with whom he has sexual… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Chevron has wrapped itself in some pretty good arguments that make you scratch your head. The moral responsibility is certainly at its… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Someone must not be afraid to say, 'moral perversion is wrong.' If we do not act now, homosexuals will 'own' America! If… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
