It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes,… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest,… — John Doolittle Copy Share Image
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts,… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The lawyers' contribution to the civilizing of humanity is evidenced in the capacity of lawyers to argue furiously in the courtroom, then… — John Silber Copy Share Image
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“His intellectual eminence carries with it corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a man’s talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister 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 problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The combination of moral intentionality and human innovation is a powerful force. And that's the force behind the humane economy. By embracing… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There you have it: an expensive higher education based on sloganeering, on pat, trite phrases that substitute moral posturing for political reasoning.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The climate-change deniers are rapidly ending up with as much intellectual credibility as creationists and Flat Earthers. ...they are nudging close to… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
