Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral… — Anonymous 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
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom,… — Tom Price Copy Share Image
If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Still more pathetic is the total collapse of moral fanaticism. Fanatics think that their single-minded principles qualify them to do battle with… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
There can be, therefore, no true education without moral culture, and no true moral culture without Christianity. The very power of the… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
