A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
The word 'resilience,' in our American culture is closely aligned with 'grit,' and that word implies a certain moral fiber that says… — James Redford Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my… — Luke Scott Copy Share Image
I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If… — Riley Keough Copy Share Image
... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
It has been a fortunate fact in the modern history of physical science that the scientist constructing a new theoretical system has… — R. B. Braithwaite Copy Share Image
Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong.… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born… — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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