It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable. — Robert D. Kaplan 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
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
But you're the hardest thing I've ever done, and you're also the best. So... I think that's the moral of the story… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“Thoreau said, ‘Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply… — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity… — Margot Livesey 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
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root 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
I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
