The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Politicians, in many cases - their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Love is the fundamental building block of all human relationships. It will greatly impact our values and morals. Love is the important… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL,… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science can't tell us what our life means ethically. It can't tell us what we are meant to do as moral creatures.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values .… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If the foundation of a well-ordered society is a healthy, happy home, then the problem of lawlessness will not be solved by… — J. Spencer Kinard Copy Share Image
From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Once I accuse you of racist, I have demonized you, and it means any future collaboration, cooperation between us is a sign… — Mark Shields 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
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The real need of the day is moral and spiritual rearmament. God's Living Spirit can transcend conflicting political systems, can reconcile order… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We will never know the extent of the damage movies are doing to us, but movie art, it appears, thrives on moral… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
I've said this before - and I mean it strongly - an abstract concept or a moral issue has to be connected… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It may be well to remember that the highest level of moral aspiration recorded in history was reached by a few ancient… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
