All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And the moral of the story is that you don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. And the second… — John Green Copy Share Image
I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
What Americans don't want to admit ... is that not only is there not a contradiction between state regulation and freedom, but… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which admits of but one possibility… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In later years, when I started working in police ethics, I was professionally drawn back to the topic but as well was… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The suburban West is, from a moral perspective, depressing evidence that we have misused our freedom. There is, however, another aspect to… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques... — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to. — Lecrae Copy Share Image
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“People do not glorify the humble because he is different but glorify morality which is fixed!” — Hesham Nebr Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
