I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics? — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of so much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
If you speak [ about violence against Israelis], you are in an unspeakable place, have become a Nazi or its moral equivalent… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity. — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of… — George Dennison Copy Share Image
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Money interests fix the punishment for crime in this country [...] consequently there is no moral justice.” — Edward Anderson Copy Share Image
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image