Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality. — African Spir Copy Share Image
the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are.… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moraldevelopment, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the… — James P Comer Copy Share Image
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets… — Marc Morano Copy Share Image
For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt.… — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. — John Nolte Copy Share Image
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Any true revival can be proven by the fact that it changed the moral climate of an area or nation. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".” — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals...… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both,… — Chade-Meng Tan Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that… — Perri Peltz Copy Share Image
“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that… — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised… — Bob Ney Copy Share Image
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
