History is either a moral argument with lessons for the…

That's the thing about the internet. It's really good at giving you pointless facts like how many horses a star owns, but not important…

— Janette Rallison

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.

— Ayn Rand

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“History is made up of "moral" judgments based on politics. We condemned Lenin's acceptance of money from the Germans in 1917 but were discreetly…

— Saul D. Alinsky

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be…

— John Burroughs

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

— H. L. Mencken

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as…

— David Plotz

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

— George W. Bush

“And so this became his pattern: he knew the law. He had a feeling for it. But then, just when I wanted him to…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“It’s true that what can be done will be done. It’s inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has much to…

— David Ambrose

“The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt the people you love.”

— Adrian Howell

“As the masses lose their economic importance, will the moral argument alone be enough to protect human rights and liberties? Will elites and governments…

— Yuval Noah Harari

A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations…

— Terry Eagleton