Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
In war, in some sense, lies the very genius of law. It is law creative and active; it is the first principle… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If the reader thinks he is done, now, and that this book has no moral to it, he is in error. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner 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
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's fun to play a character who lives on the edge, who is an ethical and moral mess, and is paying the… — Josh Charles Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience. — Jeremy London Copy Share Image
Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others. — Perry Como Copy Share Image
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Do not judge to Anyone, Do not let anyone to judge you. But Every person must have little moral and honest to… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . . — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Sunburn is very becoming - but only when it is even - one must be careful not to look like a mixed… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
