Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of ... it has everything to do with morals.… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black… — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business… — Lord Clyde James Avon Clyde Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . "… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
