Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“None of the moral virtues is engendered in us by nature, for no natural property can be altered by habit.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront… — Ken Saro-Wiwa Copy Share Image
All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
You'll notice that for many progressives, taking from the rich is not simply a necessity of budgeting but a moral imperative and… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think it's important to raise your kids, start 'em early. Teaching them the values and morals, so when they get out… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out,… — John Newton Copy Share Image
I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice.… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist… — Meyer Schapiro Copy Share Image
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image