Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden Copy Share Image
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Economic and military power can be developed under the spur of laws and appropriations. But moral power does not derive from any… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11.… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is no Constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong -… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed… — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
When you share your moral common sense with people in your locality, that helps you to form a community. But those gut… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
The function of criticism is the reeducation of perception of works of art? The conception that its business is to appraise, to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country… — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans, people all over the world, we need to solve the climate crisis, it's not a political issue, it's a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
![“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun…” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/385/erasmus-darwin-17186_atoms_so-erst-the-sage-pythagoras-with-scienti_3173964.jpg)
![“It was [Totila's] constant theme, that national vice and ruin are inseparably connected; that victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue; and that the prince, and even the people, are responsible for the crimes which they neglect to punish.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/212/edward-gibbon-710_connected_it-was-totila-s-constant-theme-that-nati_2666395.jpg)
