The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Over the last few years, I've been focusing on questions having to do with the self, and questions having to do with… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Now, one hears from a long time ago that "white is merely a state of mind." I add to that, white is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past,… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We now have a better biological and psychological understanding of our moral thinking. The idea that we should do what maximizes happiness… — Joshua Greene Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
In separating out, say, legal and moral requirements, I tend to work with paradigms rather than strict divisions - eg, paradigmatically, legal… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in… — John Galt Copy Share Image
Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I like Silver Surfer because he's the most philosophical, always philosophizing about the human race and the human condition and why people… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Draw nigh to the righteous, and through them you will draw nigh to God. Communicate with those who possess humility, and you… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
... a widespread secularization increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual, and spiritual nihilism that denies not only the One who is the… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
When the entire moral energy of an individual goes into the cultivation of personal integrity, we all know how unlovely the result… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The budgets we work on in Congress are more than just fiscal documents; they are a reflection of our moral values as… — Tim Walz Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an essential value in the modern world, and we have daily reminders of how awful the alternatives to it are.… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
There was one thing more than any other that turned this New York, liberal, Jewish, Columbia University graduate student away from modern… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Our best moral stories don’t tell us what is right or wrong in every situation, but they show us what one character… — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
