In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
If Fobbit leaves a reader feeling stranded in some bland in-between territory, then I haven't done my job. But having said all… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the… — Howard Moskowitz Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation. — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass. — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it… — Franz Joseph Gall Copy Share Image
One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Part of my platform is, of course, the guilty must be punished and that we no longer let our children see their… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support. — Felice Picano Copy Share Image