Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“Gather all the people stuck in misery and measure their morality, and that would be the collective true morality of the human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a… — E. L. Doctorow 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
A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. — Nicholas Johnson Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel.… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs. — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock… — Bobby Vinton Copy Share Image
What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are… — Donna Murphy Copy Share Image
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
