No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress…This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one;… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
It's disingenous for me to say that I wasn't trying to write a moral novel. By its very nature as a novel… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I think that whatever we express in terms of the potential truth is above all else about mobilizing ourselves for ourselves. We… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
I'm not writing anything out of some sense of obligation, or for marketing purposes. This is just what I prefer to write.… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. However valuable-even necessary-that may have been in… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible -… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
I certainly believe that we have a moral obligation to care for the dogs, cats, and other nonhumans whose existence we have… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Mrk pogled na licu protivan je prirodi, a kad postane uobičajenim, izražajnost počinje umirati ili je već konačno ugasla i ne može… — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Copy Share Image
The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions… — David Hume Copy Share Image