One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The intellectual development of man, far from having get men away from war, has, rather, on the contrary, bring them to a… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality. — Larry Christenson Copy Share Image
There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness.… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's… — Jeff Long Copy Share Image
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of… — Dennis Altman Copy Share Image
For Confucians, we are such thoroughly social beings that individual and social interests are not in the end regarded as fundamentally incompatible.… — David Wong Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom is not synonymous with an easy life. ... There are many difficult things about freedom: It does not give you safety,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image