I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. — Rob Thurman 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
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
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Relations between the United States and other countries, and our role as a global leader, are advanced by our willingness to help… — Patrick Leahy Copy Share Image
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“A deed done to others, but for yourself is not a worthy one at all. Instead, place another before you; in this… — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
As an old creative industry full of cruelty and moral sense, British journalism once flourished on the imperative that people required the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the… — U Thant Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
The 'realist' conception of continuing old-fashioned 'balance of power' politics may have been well founded in the past, but it is inconsistent… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — Thomas G. West Copy Share Image
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
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology... — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
A thousand moral paintings I can show That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's More pregnantly than words. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If it's possible to have an enemy without making it personal or moral, then that's what I'm trying to do. — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
