If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The reason most of us go to the movies is to be involved in someone else's moral dilemma. — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth. — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
The standard of morals is as variable as morals themselves; of which every nation has a different code, and every custom a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
“He then proceeded to shout at Alpha and Beta, a sign that he was in a genuine good mood. They took it… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
“Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun.” — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God? — Plato Copy Share Image
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them. — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You can't tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Self-pity ? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals. — James Laver Copy Share Image
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image