The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves -… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
It is a common thing for men to benumb their own arms, and make them as dead and useless by leaning too… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue… — Robert Paul Wolff Copy Share Image
It is visible then that it was not any Heathen Religion or other Idolatrous Superstition, that first put Man upon crossing his… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
I made a commitment to myself: that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A photographer is a witness. He has a moral duty. Every picture must be true and honest. I believe a photographer's strength… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
The mental secularization of Christians means that nowadays we meet only as worshipping beings and as moral beings, not as thinking beings. — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may… — William Borah Copy Share Image
Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure. — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Besides, I already knew you didn't have any moral qualms about breaking and entering.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. — Paul Morley Copy Share Image
It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions — Stephanie Kaza Copy Share Image
There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
It doesn't take courage to kill someone,' Klaus said. 'It takes a severe lack of moral stamina. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
