Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St.… — James McBride 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
I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom; we have surrendered its only real… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression... I… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
If we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Unless we believe the gospel, we will be driven in all we do-whether obeying or disobeying-by pride ('self-love') or fear ('of damnation').… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless… — John Irving Copy Share Image
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan 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
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the… — Amy Tan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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