She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Many people have written about the economic meaning of globalization; in One World Peter Singer explains its moral meaning. His position is… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Our great need is not ardour to save man but courage to face God - courage to face God with our soul… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
For me, the moral dimension of life is that you are committed, to doing everything that you do, with a sense of… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I can't resist a pretty plant. When I see it, I want it, I buy it, take it home, and plant it… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino’s planetwide ocean,… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
“The moral, of course, is that you must always try to see other people's Point of View before you criticize anybody. Histories… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical.… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more… — Edouard Seguin Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; rather, our fundamental problem is spiritual. It is… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
We come before God to pray for the missing and the dead, and for those who loved them... Our purpose as a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The solution is this: There will be a state of Palestine in all of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait is a case of bad men doing wrong things for wicked reasons. This is the full-sized or standard… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of… — Maud Younger Copy Share Image
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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