In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The psychological and moral comfort of a presence at once humble and understanding-this is the greatest benefit that the dog has bestowed… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.' — William Murchison Copy Share Image
On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
“5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized... The Fifth is a lone… — Erwin Griswold Copy Share Image
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We Americans have a sense of ourselves as a moral people. We have led the way in the fight for human rights… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex… — Marlene Zuk Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, [religious] faith is often the sole foundation of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. — William James Copy Share Image
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
We can't exempt ourselves from the same moral calculus that we are willing to apply to others. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national… — Peter King Copy Share Image
I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that,… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image