Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they… — Aime Martin Copy Share Image
Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever.… — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong.… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
