I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge… — John S. Dickerson Copy Share Image
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
It is true that we have not deliberately or wholly abandoned the Christian element in our tradition, but does that element count… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
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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
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
I'm so grateful that I was raised by a mother who really instilled in me that my moral compass and achievements all… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
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I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
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One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Russia is an ancient country with historical, profound traditions and a very powerful moral foundation. And this foundation is a love for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
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