The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways. — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to… — William James Copy Share Image
You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government.… — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in… — Kristin Luker Copy Share Image
Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him -… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In I'm Not A Racist, But..., Lawrence Blum offers answers for our time about what race is, who is a racist, and… — Martha Minow Copy Share Image
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman 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
We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments,… — William James Copy Share Image
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment. — Barbara Branden Copy Share Image
Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral,… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world. — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Rage is a sign of nothing but immaturity. The power of any faith comes not from its coercion of critics and dissenters.… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image