This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
When a plane crashes and some die while others live, a skeptic calls into question God's moral character, saying that he has… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wrong to inflict “unnecessary”… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
“We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. Whether it be of law,… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The first step in understanding the sex industry is to understand the customers, the johns. ... These men have already violated moral… — Joseph Parker Copy Share Image
We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
From Ukraine to Syria, he [Vladimir Putin] is behaving like the world's new general and celebrating victories, while the American president sits… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
The moral person contemplates evil, the evil person commits it. And a person without a sense of humor can't distinguish between the… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
People in red states and blue states can agree that if we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, letting… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,'… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
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