Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
We need to provide an education which teaches critical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and… — Lewis Vaughn Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?” — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
If you can have a show that has quite strong morals and cover important themes but be able to put them out… — Ed Speleers Copy Share Image
If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political. — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom. — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged!… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image