We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame. — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. — Des MacHale Copy Share Image
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Playing somebody who's obsessed. Playing somebody who is transgressing, and who is really crossing moral lines and ethical lines. That's always interesting. — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
How could it be that I had a legal obligation to kill people I did not know, and who did certainly not… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It's a bit much describing it as a moral challenge from a government that's tripled the deficit and added $100 billion to… — Tony Burke Copy Share Image
The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral… — V. Vale Copy Share Image
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive. — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Sharpton is a smart guy. In some ways, he's a good guy. But a moral arbiter? Let's not get carried away. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide,… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always… — Aristippus Copy Share Image
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image