a towering intellect, grand in its achievements, and glorious in its possibilities, may, with the moral and spiritual faculties held in abeyance,… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North,… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
That's his definition of mercy. This is the year of the Mercy Jubilee of the pope. I know that he's against abortion,… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a… — Petro Poroshenko Copy Share Image
[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When I tried to get a little 'too close' to my girlfriend, Mildred. She told me she would rather get introduced to… — Jeromy Shingongo Copy Share Image
The way you speak of the characters in your story shows what you think of the values of conservatives‚ or evolution, for… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There's a reason evolution is a hot-button issue. It's not just a matter of science, either. It's a matter of the big… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
The perpetuators of the Buddha dharma have a moral responsibility to the rest of humanity to be at the forefront of the… — Bodo Balsys Copy Share Image
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore,… — David Hume 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
Our political system encourages that. We don't have proportional representation. There's little renewal in our political class and it's always the same… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the Establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not toexpressions of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
But will this attention to poverty be sustained or transient? That depends on our leaders - whether we step up and sustain… — John Edward Copy Share Image
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
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