When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
To equate Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, as Donald Trump was asked, you know, I guess it was Bill… — John McCain Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is a fool only, and not the philosopher, nor even the prudent man, that will live as if there were no… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of… — William James Copy Share Image
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good… — Deborah Needleman Copy Share Image
The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins 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
And suddenly I rejoiced in the great security of the sea as compared with the unrest of the land, in my choice… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What fools indeed we morals are to lavish care upon a car, with never a bit of time to see about our… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
If you truly believe that what you have is useful and valuable to your clients, then you have a moral obligation to… — Jay Abraham Copy Share Image
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. — James G. Frazer 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