I don't think our lives actually unfold with morals attached to them, or meanings that are easily extracted, or jokes designed to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“The moral dilemma that the little mermaid must confront - that she can only live by killing the one she loves -… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be… — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
After September 11 there was feeling obligated to respond, and allow other people to set the terms of the conversation. There was… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
One of my problems with terrorism is that it's self-evidently bad. The main thing that makes it complicated is the fact that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live… — Arthur Carhart Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The religion of Jesus is founded in the Unity of God, and this principle chiefly gave it triumph over the rabble of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business… — Lord Clyde James Avon Clyde Copy Share Image
People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Nothing is more private than a woman's body; it is her physical, emotional, and moral citadel. She cannot be free at all… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that “everybody is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
