I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,… — Manis Friedman Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist. — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find most American films annoy me because their third act tends to be tying up loose ends and returning to moral… — David Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Even if plants were sentient, veganism would still be a moral imperative given that it takes many pounds of plants to produce… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
A civilized society must count animals as worthy of moral consideration and ethical treatment. The question is not, Can they reason? nor… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
That torture is wrong can never be the conclusion to any line of reasoning because it has to be a fundamental premise.… — Giles Fraser Copy Share Image
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
There are some particular moral truths that I believe we have access to (such as the one not to inflict pain on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Government Picking Winners and Losers = Corruption. When government tries to pick winners and losers, the inevitable consequence is corruption. Yes, corruption.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument. — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Israel is our only true ally in the Mideast, and supporting it is the only moral thing for the United States to… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
I think that we've made great moral progress in the second half of the 20th century in many respects, and particularly in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There are people who say, "God is in complete control of everything that happens, and if the Earth is getting warmer, then… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I think . . . that philosophy has the duty of pointing out the falsity of outworn religious ideas, however estimable they… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
