What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I think of moral beauty as what is the good and the just - terms perhaps best defined by their opposite: evil.… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals"… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“In high school I read [Lev] Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and loved it. Then I read [Friedrich] Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals" and that hit me hard. I don't know where I got it. My parents warned me not to mention either of those books when I went for my college interviews so I wouldn't seem…” quote by Stephen Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5f/stephen-greenblatt-10786_anna_in-high-school-i-read-lev-tolstoy-s-anna_2323091.jpg)
