In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs. — Jonathan Haidt 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
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical… — African Spir Copy Share Image
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few results. Apartheid… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct. — James Rachels Copy Share Image
In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more… — Edouard Seguin Copy Share Image
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
Man must cast out of himself everything which separates him from God. He must will to live the divine life, and he… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions. — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance… — Richard Weikart Copy Share Image
Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It is certain that the soul is either mortal or immortal. The decision of this question must make a total difference in… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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