At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“The Realistic Vision recognizes the need for strict moral education through parents, family, friends, and community because people have a dual nature… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard… — Felix Adler 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
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
There is no obligation for the author of a film to believe in, or to sympathise with, the moral behaviour of his… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I take facts about reasons to be fundamental in two ways. First, I believe that facts about reasons are not reducible to… — T. M. Scanlon Copy Share Image
As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What makes us moral beings is that...there are some acts we believe we ought to die rather than commit...But now suppose that… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil.… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
The world has experienced a revival of an old faith in the everlasting moral force of justice. At no time in history… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the slave. I will oppose it with… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character and low intelligence. Let us face the truth: Democracy,… — Fred Reed Copy Share Image
I look for three things. Number One is does the film promote the beauty and dignity of the human person? Number Two… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?'… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do… — Jack Donovan Copy Share Image
There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town:… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and… — Derek Blasberg 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
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Does the kind of thinking that permits assisted suicide provide a moral basis for protecting the preciousness of human life or does… — Arthur J. Dyck Copy Share Image
