Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body &… — Plato Copy Share Image
The truth is every problem can't be solved by government. Many are caused by the moral breakdown in our society. And the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The most enduring of the false narratives is that the signature phrase of the early pontificate - "Who am I to judge?"… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We have stagnant wages in America. We have stagnant, even declining net worth in this country. That's part of something that's much… — Neal Gabler Copy Share Image
“It’s true that what can be done will be done. It’s inevitable, a law of nature, and neither right nor wrong has… — David Ambrose Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Here was the rub: one must be more zealous to please God than to avoid sin. One must sacrifice oneself utterly to… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out,… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
[Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil,… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our… — King Felipe VI Copy Share Image