To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce… — James Cook Copy Share Image
That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion,… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are… — Donna Murphy Copy Share Image
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable… — Star Parker Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
![“[Walt] Whitman and [humanist educator John] Dewey tried to substitute hope for knowledge. They wanted to put shared utopian dreams - dreams of an ideally decent and civilized society - in the place of knowledge of God's Will, Moral Law, the Laws of History, or the Facts of Science… As long as we…” quote by Richard Rorty](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/050/richard-rorty-13909_achieve_walt-whitman-and-humanist-educator-john_2355050.jpg)
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