The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of… — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To reverence the impersonal creation instead of the personal God who created us is a perversion designed for escaping moral accountability to… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone. — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept,… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write.… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
There are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was… — Haroon Moghul 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
I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod 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
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of… — Kimberly Quinn Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
