I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Ability may get you to the top, nut it takes chracter to keep you there - mental, moral, and physical. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
“A man shows he's a man by the way he corresponds to the expectations of those who are naive.” — Torey Haydden Copy Share Image
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.' — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
What a person says and does in ordinary moments when when no one is looking reveals more about true character than grand… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The so-called resistance is very broad and we don't agree on everything, but there's a moment of opportunity when people are paying… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The moral of the story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it...some stories just… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“There was a certain, subterranean moral code in play, but surely, I could think of a way around that old thing.” — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
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