I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men… — H. L. Mencken 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
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The moral of the story: perceptions are everything. During each moment you are in contact with a customer, you are the organization. — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
The fact that we did not give the demonstrators in Iran our moral support when a young woman named Neda bled to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good. — Leandra Medine Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Novelists are no more moral or certain than anybody else; we are ideologically adrift, and if we are any good then our… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions,… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results. — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every… — Edmund Yates Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher. — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image