Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom loving nation in the history of the world, and… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral… — Arlene Holt Baker Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like… — Anders Behring Breivik Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage… — Spark Matsunaga Copy Share Image
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently… — Bob Larson Copy Share Image
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral… — George Washington Copy Share Image
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“The Realistic Vision recognizes the need for strict moral education through parents, family, friends, and community because people have a dual nature… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In climbing there is no question of right or wrong. Moral right or wrong, that is a religious question, they have nothing… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic.… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image