To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“What we know depends also on what, as moral beings, we choose to make ourselves.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The moral is that people are paying less attention to you than you believe.” — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — Ximenes Doudan Copy Share Image
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians. — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
The odd thing about Bob is that even though he's known as really taking chances and being very sensual, he was also… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“A ética da moral é mantê-la em segredo. A liberdade é um segredo.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image