“The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics. — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence. — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society… — Nikolas Schreck Copy Share Image
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
No one talks about the real ethics disaster in Washington. It's that many members of Congress will listen to any argument against… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The wrongfulness, the immorality of eating animal food has been recognized by all mankind during all the conscious life of humanity. Why,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team… — Greg Zeschuk Copy Share Image
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering. — Mary Crosby Copy Share Image
“The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt the people you love.” — Adrian Howell Copy Share Image
