It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as… — Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder Copy Share Image
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his… — J. G. A. Pocock Copy Share Image
I am a Christian according to my conscience in belief,in purpose and wish;Mnot of course by the orthodox standard. But I am… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage]. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. …… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Transsexualism itself is a deeply moral question rather than a medicaltechnical answer. — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts. — April Gornik Copy Share Image
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke… — John Selden Copy Share Image
City of prose and fantasy, of capitalist automation, its streets a triumph of cubism, its moral philosophy that of the dollar. New… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. — Reinhard Bendix Copy Share Image
Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think — Dorothy Kilgallen Copy Share Image
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
![“[My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].” quote by John le Carre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/229/john-le-carre-651_books_my-novels-introduce-levels-of-intelligen_2477512.jpg)
