The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“En muchos casos, llamarle a uno "bueno" no indica más que docilidad, tendencia a no llevar la contraria y a no causar… — Fernando Savater Copy Share Image
This is the very heart of true morality--not to struggle, not to fight with any weapons, for one's self alone--but to struggle… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. — John Nolte Copy Share Image
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some… — John Brown Copy Share Image
It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental,… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all. — Aleksandar Hemon 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
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness. — African Spir 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
Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When [Nelson Mandela] was in prison I admired him for his moral strength... Of his period in power I can see few… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
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