The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We don't have politicians with dignity and morals. We never have, not since [Nelson] Mandela and [Mahatma ] Gandhi. It's really rare. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call… — Richard Mentor Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps,… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations… — Ebenezer Erskine Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral… — Rick Warren 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
Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
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
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider Copy Share Image
It’s not a requirement to eat animals, we just choose to do it, so it becomes a moral choice and one that… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The great task of the peace is to work morals into it. The only sort of peace that will be real is… — Frederic Eggleston Copy Share Image
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as… — Mildred Blaxter Copy Share Image
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the… — Jeremy Northam Copy Share Image
[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them.… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt.… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
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