to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
If this is the degree of inflation planned for in advance, the real outcome is indeed likely to be such that most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
“All the dilemmas and questions of today were known in ethics more than 2,000 years ago. All the greatest teachers of mankind… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality?… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot… — Morgan Fairchild Copy Share Image
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense… — George Pataki Copy Share Image
The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a child - I've… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in… — L. Lionel Kendrick Copy Share Image
The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
If being "iron headed" is to be lacking such feelings, then Kant's position is that an ironheaded person could not be a… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligation and… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
![“The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.” quote by Elizabeth S. Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5a5/elizabeth-s-anderson-79971_atheism_the-fundamental-religious-objection-to-t_1735801.jpg)
