“Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“E segundo a moral dos homens? Certos actos nunca serão perdoados. Violação. Pedofilia. Tortura de crianças. Ausência de amor. A pena para… — Mons Kallentoft Copy Share Image
For all artists... you want to be loved and adored by as many people as you can. But the moral we've learned… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to stand up for those citizens of the world who cannot stand… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the… — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires.… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away?… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Our hope for creative living lies in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have had little love for, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Some citizens are so good that nothing a leader can do will make them better. Others are so incorrigible that nothing can… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win? — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price. — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
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