Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals… — John Goodlad Copy Share Image
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts. — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
I now feel that I have a moral duty to course correct and say wait a minute, it's not just for adults. — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL,… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect… — Jonathan McReynolds Copy Share Image
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Though it's hard to be completely certain about things like this, I have a suspicion that only someone with deep freedom (one… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. — Reinhard Bendix Copy Share Image
About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Owen [Suskind], in a sense, grew up on a diet of myth and fable, and has become an expert on their themes,… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators all, and I recommend to you this moral: In real… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral,… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet.… — Colonel Sanders Copy Share Image
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image