Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The real conflict in the abortion issue is between a value - the right to choose whether or not to have the… — Morris Sullivan Copy Share Image
What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the… — Yu Dan Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Those with health insurance are overinsured and their behavior is distorted by moral hazard. Those without health insurance use their own money… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life,… — Hubert Humphrey Copy Share Image
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
“He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony… — William James Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
