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
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
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Biblical backing for Mormon behavior is easy to find, although Mark Twain is reported to have denied its legitimacy to a Mormon.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than… — James David Barber Copy Share Image
If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like… — Anders Behring Breivik Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage… — Spark Matsunaga Copy Share Image
The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral… — George Washington Copy Share Image