A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories. — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain… — John Edward Copy Share Image
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Forgiving presupposes remembering. And it creates a forgetting not in the natural way we forget yesterday's weather, but in the way of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament,… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets. — William Jones Copy Share Image
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that. — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness carries with it an incalculable moral edge in any combat, offensive or defensive. — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image