I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum. — William Weld Copy Share Image
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The talent of a meat packer, the morals of a money changer, and the manners of an undertaker. — William Allen White Copy Share Image
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
You know that things are not going well when you lose the moral high ground to a TMZ reporter, — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's what we were interested in: how power and money ran itself, much more so than 'drugs are bad, drugs are good.'… — David Simon Copy Share Image
If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make… — Charlotte Bunch Copy Share Image
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Moral of the story: try to get things right, figure out what's going wrong with the scenario, and don't give up. — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
