The main thing a childhood in the Church did for me, I think, was set up the universe as a moral system.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn't assume they represent… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in… — Marjorie Grene Copy Share Image
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Why don't you trust women to make this choice for themselves? We can encourage people to support life. Of course we can.… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
a guardian ad litem... GAL is appointed by a court to be a child's advocate during legal proceedings that involve a minor.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The highest levels of the U.S. military, the Defense Department, and the White House must be held accountable for putting our troops… — Lawrence Korb Copy Share Image
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
It is organized as a fellowship of men, a system of morals, a philosophy taught by degrees through the use of symbol,… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image