The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly… — David Hume Copy Share Image
TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part… — Max Meyer Copy Share Image
It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is… — Alphonsus Rodriguez Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral. — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members. — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Just as a husband cannot be indulgent of adultery in his wife, so also God cannot and will not endure infidelity in… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera's interventions. The omnipresence of cameras persuasively suggests that time consists of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe 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
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
