True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Do humans have a different moral significance than cows in general? — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so. — Torbjorn Tannsjo 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
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
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?” — K.L. Toth Copy Share Image
It was easy to be moral when that was the way you felt anyway. The hard bit about morality was making yourself… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others. — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I… — Victor Garber 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
The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid… — Julianne Hough Copy Share Image
The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When banks place credits into your account, they are merely pretending to lend you money. In reality, they have nothing to lend.… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
![“He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85e/abraham-lincoln-88_human-soul_he-stephen-douglas-is-blowing-out-the-mo_512193.jpg)
