New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
On moral grounds, I think that if you believe a certain outcome is a very possible outcome, you have an obligation to… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing for me is that when you're feeling very scared and nervous about something… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those… — Craig Biddle Copy Share Image
The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a… — Frank Turek Copy Share Image
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, the force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral. If it is moral, at least there… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with… — Benjamin Thompson Copy Share Image
I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more… — William Howard Taft 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
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm… — Taryn Manning Copy Share Image
Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns.… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism created monstrous moral and spiritual problems - the kind of problems that are inevitable… — Star Parker Copy Share Image