When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
If the myth of pure evil is that evil is committed with the intention of causing harm and an absence of moral… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As I came to the lime light, the media asked me many questions. A lot many moral policing... 'Wear this, wear that,… — Sania Mirza Copy Share Image
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If we think the main mission of the church is to improve life in Adam and add a little moral strength to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As civilization progresses, we should improve our laws basically, not superficially. Many things that are lawful are highly immoral and some things… — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking,… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Unreflective self-deception leads people into hypocrisy and all sorts of moral failings. When you look at these people who are busy pontificating… — Clancy Martin Copy Share Image
The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as… — Rod Rosenbladt Copy Share Image
A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time,… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
