Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To call a work of art Kitsch is to condemn it for being bad art. But there is a great deal of… — Karsten Harries Copy Share Image
I think there's a fundamental moral issue about whether it's right for a machine to decide to kill a person. It's bad… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
One thing that fiction does is it allows us to take big picture questions, big issues, big moral and socio-political changes and… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Today, people are talking about many things: the danger of war and frequent clashes, water and air pollution, hunger, the increasing erosion… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Many who know something but not enough about dreams and their meaning...are liable to succumb to the prejudice that the dream actually… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Indonesia has already been governed for too long by sclerotic uncles who have sold their nation off to foreign companies and governments.… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
I think most teen comedies are probably played in a way that aren't geared towards people that are wanting to be entertained… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter… — Francis Grund Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image