I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it… — Elaine Pagels 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
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies. — William Bennett Copy Share Image
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
My theory of self-made men is, then, simply this; that they are men of work. Whether or not such men have acquired… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun.… — Marilyn Manson 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
I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom… — Moshe Sharett Copy Share Image
How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history … On every level - moral, strategic, military and economic -… — Tomas Young Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects..It is the only correct map of the human heart… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I did not imagine that pregnant women were 'naturally' any more sensitive or exalted than people in any other condition; only it… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
There is something in the heart of man which will bend under moral suasion. There is a swift witness for truth in… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self respect and to the moral purity of men.… — Tad R. Callister Copy Share Image
When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth… — Robert McCracken Copy Share Image
[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image