I believe that one basic question, what we ought to do, period (the moral question), is a genuine one. There exists a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good:… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Isabel had firm views on moral proximity and the obligations it created. WE cannot choose the situations in which we become involved… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Maybe the most provocative thing one can do - and I'm not the first one to do it - is to ask… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress,… — Gelsey Kirkland Copy Share Image
This is perhaps the greatest moral challenge Jesus left us: We all do pretty well in love when the persons we are… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical… — African Spir Copy Share Image
It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem… — David Roochnik Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.);… — African Spir Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
