Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development. — Patrick Swift Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a person in my life who doesn't have some moral ambiguity. — Jason Beghe Copy Share Image
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? — Steven Pinker 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 aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am a political animal, because for God's sakes I think "We The People" is a job. I think experienced self government… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Liberals got gay marriage, and now they got this transgender thing going and at full speed. The things that are being aimed… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The Bible is the best of books, and I wish it were in the hands of every one. It is indispensable to… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men-now in… — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
We must be clear. White supremacy is repulsive. This bigotry is counter to all America stands for. There can be no moral… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Many people like to think that their moral or political enemies are not just wicked or wrong - as if that were… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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