Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both. — Jack Wagner Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
“He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life,… — Hubert Humphrey Copy Share Image
I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the… — Bernardine Dohrn Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Our enemies are real. But so are the moral questions and long-term political implications of drone strikes. — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment. — Barbara Branden Copy Share Image
“Self as such was not normal ..will be like the Justice, which lost its wings !! Both are rivals for the same man ..” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom… — Moshe Sharett Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I think of it all as a test. This is a moral examination that one has to pass... to stand up against… — Kailash Satyarthi Copy Share Image
Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office. — William Weld Copy Share Image