Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“To sit down when you should have remained on your feet- that's all you need to show you the moral fabric of… — Carlos Franz Copy Share Image
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don’t get a moral law unless there’s… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Independent bread gives independent morals: - while pecuniary dependence makes moral subserviency; - So get money - get wealth — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Our system doesn't work, and it doesn't work, ultimately, not because of Sarah Palin, or the christian right, or Glenn Beck. It… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines.… — Henry George Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach -… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A narrow and moralistic view of morals is responsible for the failure to recognize that all the aims and values which are… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values. — Tipper Gore Copy Share Image
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state — Augustus Hopkins Strong Copy Share Image
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To preserve health is a moral and religious duty: for health is the basis of all social virtues; and we can be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one… — James Mill Copy Share Image
Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
