I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will… — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth,… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“It was your brother who doomed you. I have approached many humans with my story. Always, they are the cause of their… — Chelsea Abdullah Copy Share Image
Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
“There is no “universal moral urge” and not all ethical systems agree. Polygamy, human sacrifice, infanticide, cannibalism (Eucharist), wife beating, self-mutilation, foot… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion—but I would argue that… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
While the US Constitution marks these programs as illegal, my government argues that secret court rulings, which the world is not permitted… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not… — Francis William Newman Copy Share Image
It is possible that the meaning of wisdom in Hebrew indicates aptitude for stratagems and the application of thought in such a… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Conservatism, I believe, happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“Tungkek bana nan mambao rabah. Tongkat malah yang membawa jatuh rebah, panutanlah yang membawa musibah. Orangtualah yang mengalah kepada anak yang salah.… — Ahmad Fuadi Copy Share Image
Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are… — Francesc Ferrer i Guardia Copy Share Image
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
