He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself (Christian morals). — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Our moral decisions about ourselves can be spiritual. Our moral decisions about other people can only be practical.” — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs. I have no where met,… — Philippe Pinel Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
I'm repulsed at the concept of man-on-man sex, I think it's against nature, I think it's strange as hell, but if that's… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse. — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people — John Adams Copy Share Image
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image