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
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do;… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit. — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the… — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices… — Rushworth Kidder Copy Share Image
When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people. Let us have a moral… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral… — David Mackenzie Copy Share Image
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image