Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals. First and foremost, it is a matter of being just… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Some jobs require a more consistent challenge to moral courage than others. Politics is one. In such a setting terrifically good men… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
There may be a legal obligation to obey, but there will be no moral obligation to obey. When it comes to history,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life. — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle… — Patrick Campbell, 3rd Baron Glenavy Copy Share Image
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a… — John Seabrook Copy Share Image
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
I think from a moral issue, CEOs should not be making - whether it's 270 or 300 times more than their workers are making. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
